Taxonomy (biology)
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In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Modern approaches prioritize common ancestry and evolut
Description of rare animals (写生珍禽图), by Song dynasty painter Huang Quan (903–965)
Title page of Systema Naturae, Leiden, 1735
Evolution of the vertebrates at class level, width of spindles indicating number of families. Spindle diagrams are typical for evolutionary taxonomy.
The same relationship, expressed as a cladogram typical for cladistics
Carl Linnaeus
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Carl Linnaeus, also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as
Taxonomy (biology)
…are domain, kingdom, phylum (division is sometimes used in botany in place of phylum), class, order, family, genus, and species. The Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus is regarded as the founder of the current system of taxonomy, having developed a ranked system known as Linnaean taxonomy for categorizing organisms…
Portrait by Alexander Roslin, 1775
Birthplace at Råshult
Örtaboken (Herb book), an early Linnaeus manuscript, 1725
Statue as a university student in Lund, by Ansgar Almquist