credit Image: David M. Hillis, Derrick Zwick and Robin Gutell, University of Texas at Austin This large "tree of life," crowded as it is, lays out just 3,000 of the 1.8 million known species based on ...

God, the Bible tells us, gave Adam the job of naming the animals. But it was Carl Linnaeus who figured out a good way to do it. Linnaeus, also known as Carolus Linnaeus or Carol von Linne, was the ...

Carl Linnaeus developed the Latin two-word system for organising the natural world that is still in use today, writes ENDA O'DOHERTY The botanist Carolus Linnaeus was born Carl Nilsson Linnaeus in ...

Swedish botanist Carl (or Carolus) Linnaeus is, by some measures, the most influential person ever to have lived. He is famous for devising new systems for naming and grouping all living organisms, as ...

Deus creavit, Linnaeus disposuit. Translation: God created, Linnaeus organized. This was Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus’s mantra. Considered the father of modern taxonomy, Linnaeus created a system ...

Last spring I traveled with my husband, Peter, to Uppsala, an ancient city northwest of Stockholm on the gulf of Ekoln, one of the vast, inland-reaching bays of Sweden’s Lake Mälaren. Known for its ...

He’s more influential than ABBA, more famous than Björn Borg. On 23 May, Sweden will celebrate the 300th birthday of its most illustrious son: Carolus Linnaeus. The naturalist practically ...