Carl Linnaeus developed the Latin two-word system for organising the natural world that is still in use today, writes ENDA O'DOHERTY The botanist Carolus Linnaeus was born Carl Nilsson Linnaeus in ...

Biologists love Linnaeus. Biology students? Not so much. Carolus Linnaeus was the Swedish scholar who back in the 1750s devised a naming system for all living things. His classifications are now short ...

Linnaeus' ordered universe has influenced many generations of prominent scientists, including Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Born in 1707 in Råshult Sweden, Carl Linnaeus was a botanist, physician and zoologist. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology. Carl ...