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- Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature (1707-1778)
How To Use Carolus Linnaeus In A Sentence
- But, over nearly three centuries, the classification system used to organize much of our biological knowledge has remained remarkably arbitrary and ancient: The so-called binomial system of genus and species that Linse and thousands of other biologists use today was first proposed by a Swedish biologist born 300 years ago Wednesday, Carolus Linnaeus. What's in a Name? The Future of Life
- Then came the great reform of Carolus Linnaeus and his system of Latin binomials, identifying each organism by genus and species.
- The celebrated eighteenth-century systematizer Carolus Linnaeus also located people firmly within the animal kingdom, constructing the primate order to accommodate humans, apes, monkeys, prosimians, and bats.
- Larva is therefore an appropriate term for that stage of an insect's life during which its final form is still hidden or masked, and New Latin lārva was thus applied in 1691 by Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist who originated our system of classifying plants and animals. Unmasking religion
