Riding on common names, the natural way of naming nature Authors Pere Renom Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5093-8503 DOI: 10.2436/20.2503.01.224 Keywords: cavall, etimologia, expansió del significat, evolució del llenguatge, pensament Abstract At the end of 2024 the «Diccionari dels mamífers del món» was presented, a monumental work that offers the denomination in Catalan of 6,793 species of mammals from all over the world. Hence, Catalan joins other languages such as English, French, German and Spanish, which have their own names for all known mammal species. The Latin binominal nomenclature is the way in which science orders and classifies the diversity of living beings. However, common names are still fundamental to describe nature, and allow us to understand the notion of meaning, its extensions, reflect the adaptation to the environment, the evolution of language and contribute to the construction of our thinking. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Author Biography Pere Renom, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Pere Renom i Vilaró és llicenciat en Biologia per la Universitat de Barcelona i doctor en Biomedicina per la Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Investiga en l’àmbit de la macroevolució, associat a l’Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF). La seva principal ocupació és la comunicació científica a premsa i televisió. Del 2006 al 2019 va treballar de redactor i reporter al programa de divulgació científica de la Televisió de Catalunya «Quèquicom». Actualment fa seccions setmanals de ciència en directe al programa «Tot es mou», i dirigeix i presenta el nou programa de ciència «Quèqui». També ha escrit 4 llibres i una cinquantena d’articles en revistes científiques i divulgatives. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2025-06-29 How to Cite Renom, P. (2025). Riding on common names, the natural way of naming nature . Terminàlia, 1(31), 40–50. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/Terminalia/article/view/154609 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue No. 31: June 2025 Section Articles License Authors registered on the OJS platform must read the copyright assignment terms and fill in the corresponding acceptance box.The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Terminàlia, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to SCATERM (a subsidiary of Institut d'Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Terminàlia.Authors answer to SCATERM for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.SCATERM declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
