Biodiversity crusaders Peter H. Raven and Edward O. Wilson received Linnaean Legacy Awards Nov. 6 for their extraordinary contributions to taxonomy and the exploration and classification of ...

The Library holds one of the world’s largest and comprehensive collections of material by and about the Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus.

This book is a timely homage to linnaean names and the efforts of Jarvis's team, as systematists look for new ways to provide the richest classification systems.

Linnaean taxonomy is the science of classification of organisms based on diverse character sets. DNA barcoding can supplement this, but cannot replace it.

In his new book, The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy (Cambridge University Press), he says the system -- devised by Carolus Linnaeus -- is both ...