Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) was a Swedish naturalist who became known as the father of taxonomy. Taxonomy, the practice of classification, creates order from the chaos of nature by allowing us to group ...

Under the most widely used system of biological classification, known as the Linnean system, every taxon is then put into a hierarchy based on its taxonomic rank. The lowest level of ranking is ...

My youthful foray, long since abandoned, resulted in a classification scheme for 43 species of New Zealand sponge. It also gave me an appreciation for the towering achievement of Carl Linnaeus ...

D.C. Linnaean classification accurately describes many relationships and helped to establish the broad branches of the tree of life we use today. Yet this classification system overlooks something ...