The relevance of taxonomy in our genomic era is greater than ever. Correct naming is crucial for developing new foods and medicines, and for understanding our changing environment. Amazingly, we do ...

The professor home in the town was owned by Uppsala University. Scientific achievements: Introduced a classification system for plants and animals and a system for how they should be named. Was a ...

Attention Homo sapiens: Carl Linnaeus's book Systema Naturae, in which he introduced the modern system of taxonomic nomenclature, is on display November 6 at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and ...

Natural history museums don't usually tell their visitors, but they are riddled with wrongly identified specimens. Such errors even occur with important holdings, including plants and animals that ...

Carl Linnaeus is a scientific figure rarely taught about in either history or science courses. Known as the “father of classification”, Linnaeus reformed the systems used to identify and name plants ...

But in the 1730s, the self-proclaimed “prince of botany” made a contribution to taxonomy that, at the time, was just as profound as any of his other achievements. After realizing that floral sex parts ...

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