Then came the great reform of Carolus Linnaeus and his system of Latin binomials, identifying each organism by genus and species. |
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But, as Koerner amply demonstrates, Linnaeus was scarcely an orthodox thinker in any realm. |
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Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 is therefore the type species of Castor by Linnaean tautonymy. |
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She also places Linnaeus in the context of his family's religious tradition. |
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Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere school-boys to old Aristotle. |
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Founded in 1788, it takes its name from the great Swedish naturalist, Carl Linnaeus, who promoted the binominal system that is used today for naming all plants and animals. |
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Aristotle did make progress beyond earlier philosophers, just as Darwin advanced beyond Linnaeus and Cuvier. |
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Modern taxonomy was born in 1753 when Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus devised the system of binomial nomenclature and assigned a unique name for every plant and animal. |
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The species was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 under its current binomial name. |
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Linnaeus described only five species of oak from eastern North America, based on general leaf form. |
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Hydraulic burrowing in the bivalve Mya arenaria Linnaeus and associated ligamental adaptations. |
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In 1739, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was founded, with people such as Carl Linnaeus and Anders Celsius as early members. |
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The grey heron was first described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus who gave it the name Ardea cinerea. |
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The ultrastructure of neurons and neuroglia in the cerebral and pleuro-pedal ganglia of Haliotis asinina Linnaeus. |
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Distribution, differentiation of populations and other aspects of the natural history of Delphinus delphis Linnaeus in the northeastern Pacific. |
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This species was first described by Linnaeus in his 1758 Systema naturae as Falco chrysaetos. |
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Since birds were grouped largely on superficial characteristics at that time, many species were grouped by Linnaeus in the Falco genus. |
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The first modern taxonomist to describe the merlin was Carl Linnaeus, a Swede who reported his type specimen came from America. |
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Invertebrate biology was not a major field of study until the work of Linnaeus and Lamarck in the 18th century. |
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The European bass was first described in 1758 by Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus in his work Systema Naturae. |
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The term medusa was coined by Linnaeus in 1752, alluding to the tentacled head of Medusa in Greek mythology. |
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The genus Pelecanus was first formally described by Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. |
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The common kingfisher was first described by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae in 1758 as Gracula atthis. |
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This species was first scientifically described by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 under its current scientific name. |
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Moreover, the bird had been extensively discussed before Linnaeus established binomial nomenclature. |
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As the latter was not known to Linnaeus in 1758, the common pheasant is naturally the type species of Phasianus. |
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Mammal classification has been through several iterations since Carl Linnaeus initially defined the class. |
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Genetic evidence has now shown that Linnaeus was correct to put the tomato in the genus Solanum, making Solanum lycopersicum the correct name. |
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The botanic name Lavandula as used by Linnaeus is considered to be derived from this and other European vernacular names for the plants. |
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The name Rangifer, which Carl Linnaeus chose for the reindeer genus, was used by Albertus Magnus in his De animalibus, fol. |
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The scientific classification established by Carl Linnaeus is requisite to any human racial classification scheme. |
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It was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae in 1758 as Canis lagopus. |
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The genus Carex was established by Carl Linnaeus in his work Species Plantarum in 1753, and is one of the largest genera of flowering plants. |
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In 1758 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus included the twite in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Fringilla flavirostris. |
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The common yew was one of the many species first described by Linnaeus. |
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The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus who observed it during his 1732 expedition to Lapland and compared the plant to Andromeda from Greek mythology. |
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Here he adopts a broad racial typology that was formulated in the eighteenth century by the eminent Swedish botanist and typologist Carl Linnaeus. |
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It was chosen originally by Carl Linnaeus in his classification system. |
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Linnaeus and other scientists of his time also considered the great apes to be the closest relatives of humans based on morphological and anatomical similarities. |
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Alca torda torda, named by Linnaeus in 1758, occurs in the Baltic and White Seas, Norway, Bear Island, Iceland, Greenland, and eastern North America. |
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The name Diomedea, assigned to the albatrosses by Linnaeus, references the mythical metamorphosis of the companions of the Greek warrior Diomedes into birds. |
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Linnaeus originally included six species in 1753, by 1784 there were fourteen by 1819 sixteen, and by 1831 Adrian Haworth had described 150 species. |
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Early naturalists well understood the similarities and differences of living species leading Linnaeus to develop a hierarchical classification system still in use today. |
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Curiously the Linnaeus name Pecten jacobeus is given to the Mediterranean scallop, while the scallop endemic to Galicia is called Pecten maximus due to its bigger size. |
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The red kite was described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Falco milvus. |
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Nephrops norvegicus was one of the species included by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae, the starting point for zoological nomenclature. |
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A fourth cottid in the Baltic Sea, the European bullhead Cottus gobio Linnaeus, 1758, was not included in the study because of insufficient material. |
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In the 18th century, the Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus classified organisms according to shared physical characteristics, and not simply based upon differences. |
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The species was originally described by Linnaeus in 1758 as Testudo mydas. |
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Orcinus orca is the only recognized extant species in the genus Orcinus, one of many animal species originally described by Linnaeus in 1758 in Systema Naturae. |
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The northern fulmar was first described as Fulmarus glacialis by Carl Linnaeus, in 1761, based on a specimen from within the Arctic Circle, on Spitsbergen. |
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According to Linnaeus, this property has long been known by northern Europeans, who applied butterwort leaves to the sores of cattle to promote healing. |
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The genus Juncus was first named under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 Species Plantarum. |
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For the origin of the word tarandus, which Linnaeus chose as the specific epithet, he made reference to Ulisse Aldrovandi's Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum historia fol. |
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The black grouse is one of the many species first described in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, and still bears its original binomial name. |
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