Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus was an eighteenth-century Swedish naturalist who created the system of biological classification still used today.
His binomial nomenclature gives every species two Latin names—genus and species—like *Homo sapiens* for humans.
The Linnaean system organizes all living things into ranked categories: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.
Linnaeus would have classified that.
- Systema NaturaeFoundational biological classification text
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- genusTaxonomic rank above species
- speciesFinest taxonomic rank
- floraPlants of a region
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