4/9. What's in a Name? Taxonomy, the naming and classification of living things, has a claim to be one of the oldest sciences because, according to Genesis, God told Adam to give names to all the animals. From Linnaeus to bar-coding, Paul Evans browses the taxonomic menu and finds that species such as red grouse and tomatoes have all had their identity crises in the past.
Producer Brett Westwood Repeated tomorrow at Ham