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Theophrastus recorded evidence of a Greek folk taxonomy for plants, but later formalized botanical taxonomies were laid out in the 18th century by Carl Linnaeus. Anthropologists have observed that taxonomies are generally embedded in local cultural and social systems, and serve various social functions.
Carl Linnaeus [a] (23 May 1707 [note 1] – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, [3] [b] was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". [4]
The term "taxonomy" was coined by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle while the term "systematic" was coined by Carl Linnaeus the father of taxonomy. [ citation needed ] Taxonomy, systematic biology, systematics, biosystematics, scientific classification, biological classification, phylogenetics: At various times in history, all these words have had ...
Linnaeus could only base his scheme on the structural similarities of the different organisms. The greatest change was the widespread acceptance of evolution as the mechanism of biological diversity and species formation, following the 1859 publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
Linnaeus (later known as "Carl von Linné", after his ennoblement in 1761) [8] published the first edition of Systema Naturae in the year 1735, during his stay in the Netherlands. As was customary for the scientific literature of its day, the book was published in Latin.
The Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) [38] ushered in a new era of taxonomy. With his major works Systema Naturae 1st Edition in 1735, [ 48 ] Species Plantarum in 1753, [ 49 ] and Systema Naturae 10th Edition , [ 50 ] he revolutionized modern taxonomy.
As with classifications of others, such as Carl Linnaeus, Ernst Haeckel, Robert Whittaker, and Carl Woese, Cavalier-Smith's classification attempts to incorporate the latest developments in taxonomy., [3] [4] Cavalier-Smith used his classifications to convey his opinions about the evolutionary relationships among various organisms, principally ...
Carl Linnaeus is often recognized as the first scholar to clearly have differentiated "artificial" and "natural" classifications [44] [45] A natural classification is one, using Plato's metaphor, that is “carving nature at its joints” [46] Although Linnaeus considered natural classification the ideal, he recognized that his own system (at ...