[Generally it has been coined as] Obamadon

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Dec 17 00:01:56 UTC 2012


On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> Researchers Name Millions-Year-Old Lizard _after President’s Name_

That's true. But, how? [[obama][don]]? What does _don_ mean, in taxonomy?



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