Robyn Williams: Classification of animals and plants is essential for biological science to work. The Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus adopted the use of binomial names. He will be 300 on the 23rd May ...

Carl Linnaeus, today a largely unknown figure, is one of the giants of natural science, having devised the formal two-part naming system we use to classify all life forms. This system is known as The ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In this talk Dr John Carmody, a physiologist from the University of New South Wales, pays tribute to ...

The essential scientific practice of naming and classifying natural organisms owes its roots to the vision and work of Swedish biologist and physician Carl Linnaeus. Born to a curate named Nils ...

Carl Linnaeus, today a largely unknown figure, is one of the giants of natural science. He devised the formal two-part naming system we use to classify all life forms. With Quentin Cooper is botanist ...

Rudbeckia hirta. Solanum lycopersicum. Acer saccharum. Have you ever seen these names on plant tags or seed packets and wondered where they came from? We can thank Carl Linnaeus for taxonomy, the ...