He sorted and systematized and coined names for more than twelve thousand species. What do you call someone like that? The future father of modern taxonomy was born in Råshult, a village in southern ...

Centuries before modern genetics established the close evolutionary relationship between humans and other primates, Carl Linnaeus was already willing to examine humanity through the eyes of a ...

Like every graduate student, I once holed up in the library cramming for my doctoral oral exams. This ritual hazing starts with a long reading list. Come exam day, the scholar must prove mastery of a ...

His parents wanted him to be a priest, but he rejected the collar to study natural order. Swede Carl Linnaeus, a medical doctor who treated syphilis, tried to organize the world's flora and fauna.

The Library's Linnaean collection is due chiefly to the efforts of Basil H Soulsby (1864–1933) who took charge of the Museum's General Library in 1920. By the time he retired 10 years later, Soulsby ...

Jason Roberts tells the story of the scholars who tried to taxonomize the world. By Deborah Blum Deborah Blum, the director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at M.I.T., is the author of “The ...

You and I and the whales and the bats and the cats all share common characteristics. Some of the major ones are fur or hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands. It’s the last that makes us ...

For his project ‘De Oförtrutna’ (The Relentless), photographer Christer Björkman pictured Swedish scientists working in the spirit of Carl Linnaeus, the botanist who created the modern taxonomic ...

“WHEN we had got aboard the rowboat, the groves and forests on both sides received us, and from everywhere the crying sound of the animals delighted us.” On 20 June 1755, Daniel Rolander, a young ...

For two years in the late 1970s I followed in the footsteps of Carl Linnaeus: I toiled in the field of taxonomy. The small corner of nature's jigsaw puzzle that I tackled was a group of marine sponges ...

Carl Linnaeus Biography KS2 lesson plan, including links to videos about Carl Linnaeus. You can find more KS2 Science lesson plans, worksheets and teaching resources on the Save Teachers’ Sundays ...