Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778) was a Swedish botanist who devised the binomial classification system, a two-part naming system to identify, classify and name organisms from bacteria to elephant. Carl ...

LINNAEUS was a great naturalist, but one gathers a fresh idea of his manifold interests in Nature from the series of articles in Svenska Linni-Sdllskapets Arsskrifi, Arg. 13, 1930. One of the most ...

One of the most basic human urges is to sort things into categories, look for patterns and apply labels. "Oh, blessed rage to order," the poet Wallace Stevens called it. Since ancient times, ...

One of the most basic human urges is to sort things into categories, look for patterns and apply labels. "Oh, blessed rage to order," the poet Wallace Stevens called it. Since ancient times, ...

The binomial system is important because it allows scientists to accurately identify individual species. Common names, or local names for species can cause confusion. For example, in Europe, the ...

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THERE is a glut of natural history centenaries at the moment. Last year saw the 300th anniversary of the birth of Carolus Linnaeus, the pioneer of plant and animal classification. The Swedes pulled ...