The relevance of taxonomy in our genomic era is greater than ever. Correct naming is crucial for developing new foods and medicines, and for understanding our changing environment. Amazingly, we do ...

But in the 1730s, the self-proclaimed “prince of botany” made a contribution to taxonomy that, at the time, was just as profound as any of his other achievements. After realizing that floral sex parts ...

The major historical trends of biodiversity studies / Edward O. Wilson -- Linnaeus : a passion for order / David Quammen -- Daniel Rolander : the invisible naturalist / James Dobreff -- Taxonomy and ...

De-centring and re-centring Linnaeus / Hanna Hodacs, Kenneth Nyberg and Stephane Van Damme -- Notebooks, files and slips: Carl Linnaeus and his disciples at work / Isabelle Charmantier -- What is a ...

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's use of erotic language to describe plants ultimately helped him to recruit a global network of specimen collectors. In August 1749, Pehr Kalm, a medical student from Finland, travelled ...