Scientist Names Ants After Famous Humans
From Times Wire Reports
A scientist has memorialized some well-known humans for their conservation work by naming ants after them.
Edward O. Wilson, a Harvard University scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, named a shiny brown ant from Veracruz, Mex- ico, Pheidole mooreorum, after Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel Corp., and Moore’s wife, Betty. The Moores are leading environmental philanthropists.
Wilson named a Central American ant Pheidole harrisonfordi, after actor Harrison Ford, who is vice chairman of Conservation International.
