Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist in the 1700’s who figured out a naming system for the dreadful complexity of all the animals and all the plants and their relationships. read more
Carolus Linnaeus, also called Carl Linnaeus, Swedish Carl von Linné, (born May 23, 1707, Råshult, Småland, Sweden—died January 10, 1778, Uppsala), Swedish naturalist and explorer who was the first to frame principles for defining natural genera and species of organisms and to create a uniform system for naming them (binomial nomenclature). read more
Binomial nomenclature is the system which was proposed by Carl Linnaeus in the early 1700s. He is considered to be the "Father or Taxonomy." The system that he devised for classifying, naming and ranking organisms is currently still being put to use. read more