"Modern [scientific] taxonomy holds that names *designate* but need not meaningfully *describe*.
Article 18 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature’s code states that a species can be named 'albus', even if it is not, in fact, white; it seems to follow that humans can be called sapiens, even though, on the whole, we are not."

Hunter Dukes, 2024

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Vad är livet?
En låga så länge oljan räcker.

Carl von Linné

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#WhatIsLife

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life is now out in paperback! An epic history of taxonomy across three centuries, this book charts the lives, works, and legacy of Linnaeus and Buffon.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/12/24/book-review-every-living-thing-the-great-and-deadly-race-to-know-all-life/

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Book review – Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

An epic history of taxonomy across three centuries, Every Living Thing charts the lives, works, and legacy of Linnaeus and Buffon.

The Inquisitive Biologist

@marlies I'm gonna speculate. Breviloquiides? Breviloquium? This is me trying to parrot bastardized botanical Latin, which is even more corrupt than Church Latin.

#latin #linneaus

Book review – Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

An epic history of taxonomy across three centuries, Every Living Thing charts the lives, works, and legacy of Linnaeus and Buffon.

The Inquisitive Biologist

One example I know is a review of how Carl #Linneaus used (invented?) index cards for his research: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.10.021

But feels like there should be more retrospectives on how effective scientists structured their "real" work (notwithstanding the kabuki show telling the research story in publications) than just once every 250 years like for Linneaus.

Would love to know of other examples out there!

Carl Linneaus invented modern scientific nomenclature and personally named and described ten thousand species. #Poetry #Science #History #ScientificNomenclature #Linneaus (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1735n.html)
1735: Naming species - The book of science

Carl Linneaus invented modern scientific nomenclature and personally named and described ten thousand species.

@Edent #Linneaus in 1758 divided mankind into a range of races (or subspecies, the terms were indistinguishable): ferus (goes on all 4s), americanus (red), asianus (yellow or sallow), europeanus (white), africanus (black). Each is attributed one of the medieval humours.

Original Latin & Turton's English translation of 50 years later.

Images from #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary