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I don't know if they can rename rhodesiensis because it seems it may have been taken already, according to this article or if the second article is a follow-on, renaming rhodesiensis to bodoensis, while also renaming heidelbergensis as neanderthal. But I'm sure a FReeper can work it out.
1 posted on 10/29/2021 1:39:13 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

I’m surprised someone hasn’t demanded the dog breed, Rhodesian Ridgeback, be forced to have a name change.


2 posted on 10/29/2021 2:19:11 AM PDT by MachIV
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Western science was never “colonized”. It was started by WHITE MEN.

Just about all the key thinkers were WHITE MEN.

Just about all the big discoveries and almost all the key inventions were by WHITE MEN.....from Aristotle to the Internet. WHITE MEN. All of them.

Therefore naming anything in Western science after anything but WHITE MEN would be the colonization - not the reverse.


3 posted on 10/29/2021 2:41:17 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: blueplum

What about Rhodes scholarships?
I believe Clinton was one?
Maybe Zimbabwe scholars or Mugabe scholars?


4 posted on 10/29/2021 2:45:47 AM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHGreco RomNQkryIIs)
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Related...

Newly named human species may be the direct ancestor of modern humans

And I thought the lumpers vs splitters crap was bad...

Good gad.

7 posted on 10/29/2021 5:41:36 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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annexation of vast swathes of land.

Shouldn’t that be,

HUUUUGGGEEE tracts of land?

/just trying to make a funny


8 posted on 10/29/2021 7:26:22 AM PDT by ro_dreaming ("We seem to have gone from 'We the people' to 'Me, the president' in a scant 8 months." - Me)
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To: blueplum

What wrong with colonization?


10 posted on 10/30/2021 9:11:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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"in an effort to decolonise science"

Since the scientific method was largely developed by evil, western, colonizing nations, they have their work cut out for them.

12 posted on 06/14/2024 4:45:21 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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