The Swedish naturalist Carl Linné (1707-1778), better known by his Latinized name Carl Linnaeus, and later knighted as Carl von Linné, is the undisputed father of modern taxonomy — the science of ...

After realizing that floral sex parts varied in number, Linnaeus developed a plant classification system based on their sexual anatomy. The number of stamens (which produce male gametes), their length ...

"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...

Swedish botanist Carl (or Carolus) Linnaeus is, by some measures, the most influential person ever to have lived. He is famous for devising new systems for naming and grouping all living organisms ...

In multiple areas of life, art and thought, the 18th century was an age of order, classification, laws, formulas, symmetry and grids. Everywhere you look, you find attempts to frame and categorize ...

Our species name – which means ‘wise humans’, though we might question the wisdom of that name today – was given to us by that great Swedish classifier Carl Linnaeus in 1758. In those pre-evolutionary ...

This universal system, first developed by Carl Linnaeus in the 18th century, offers clarity and precision, overcoming many barriers of language, region and culture. A bonus of botanical names is ...

The Museum's Linnaean collection comprises approximately 12,000 items, with publication dates spanning over 300 years. Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) was a Swedish naturalist who became known as the father ...

CARL LINNAEUS: What's up, peeps? Oh do you like my relaxation tape? It's called sounds from the jungle.Welcome to my vlog, guys. All the way from my home town here in Sweden. I'm Carl Linnaeus ...