Linnaeus believed that a fixed number of species were specially created (he did allow the limited formation of new species through cross-breeding), and that genera and species have real essences — ...

Carl Linnaeus was probably not the first scientist to realize the inherent connectedness of life on this planet. But he articulated and codified it. In the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae, ...

No one really knows how many species actually inhabit planet Earth—some say millions, others trillions—but regardless, it's the job of taxonomists to name them all. Seriously, what the heck would you ...

Explicit cladistic and evolutionary methods are available to infer dendrogram structures that represent cladistic and anagenetic relationships. Formal Linnaean ranking from these dendrograms, however, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The traditional method of biological nomenclature and the phylogenetic nomenclature method are reviewed. Under a phylogenetic nomenclature, ...