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Originally Posted by sulu View Post
If your user name there is inappropriate you might want to ask LinneaM how her's can be appropriate with respect to its etymology:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_vo...C3%A9#Kritiker

Just a thought...
You thought wrong; Linnea is a reference to the flower, not Linné - not directly at least. And even if his classification of races looks a bit ill today (but not so ill in his time!), he is mostly remembered because he put in place the bases of today's taxonomy.