One of the spokespeople for the Fort Worth Stock Show is named Shanna Weaver.
(Originally I thought it was "Shannon," but Googling shows that it's actually Shanna. So that's not quite as cool as I originally thought)
As Shanna is a "she," I have no idea if that's her maiden name or her married name. But it's a total ecological WIN in my book. Doubly so if it's her maiden name and her parents intentionally named her that.
(The Shannon-Weaver index - which goes by a variety of different names, thanks in part to a typographical error in an early publication about it - is one of the widely-used ways of estimating how species-diverse a community is. I've used it on a number of projects myself).
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That's some serious calculus there. (Yes, I went and looked it up.)
Am I imagining things, or are there a lot more ways to quantify lack of diversity than there are ways to quantify diversity?
I grew up with a girl named Shannon Weaver. I had no idea the name had such significance.
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