Linnaeus' original ideas have been adapted, but continue to be accepted and as new species are identified they can be fitted into the current classification system. As more scientific methods ...

He illustrates how the continued use of this system hampers our ability to classify the organic world, and then goes on to make specific recommendations for a post-Linnaean method of classification.

Taxonomy, the practice of classification, creates order from the chaos ... With the publication of Systema Naturae (1735), Linnaeus introduced a new system for classifying the natural world. Initially ...

So, in 1735 Linnaeus started his 'dream job' of supervising the hothouses and naming specimens and classifying them according to his own system. During his stay he was to produce an important ...

Linnaeus might not have been as prominent ... comparative genomics has been key to many revisions to the classification system he conceived. The revisions are by no means complete — in fact ...

Carl Linnaeus (1707–88), father of modern taxonomy, was one of the most important scientists of the eighteenth century. This biography was written by Richard Pulteney (1730–1801), a physician and ...