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Template: Full biological kingdom classification. ... Download QR code; Print/export ... 5 kingdoms: 6 kingdoms — 8 kingdoms:
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Haeckel's original (1866) conception of the three kingdoms of life, including the new kingdom Protista. Notice the inclusion of the cyanobacterium Nostoc with plants. In 1674, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek , often called the "father of microscopy", sent the Royal Society of London a copy of his first observations of microscopic single-celled organisms.
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The first two kingdoms of life: Plantae and Animalia [ edit ] The use of the word " kingdom " to describe a major branch of the living world dates as far back as Linnaeus (1707–1778) who divided the natural world into three kingdoms: animal , vegetable , and mineral .
Robert Harding Whittaker (December 27, 1920 – October 20, 1980) was an American plant ecologist, active from the 1950s to the 1970s.He was the first to propose the five kingdom taxonomic classification of the world's biota into the Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, and Monera in 1969.
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The history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and extinct organisms evolved, from the earliest emergence of life to the present day. Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago (abbreviated as Ga, for gigaannum) and evidence suggests that life emerged prior to 3.7 Ga. [1] [2] [3] The similarities among all known present-day species indicate that they have diverged through the ...