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Are Earth's missing millions of undescribed insect species extinction-prone?
Phys Dot Org 26 Aug 2024
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How plant hunting has evolved over the centuries
Popular Science 16 Jul 2024
By the time avocados made their US debut in the 19th century, they were called alligator pears ... Linnaean taxonomy eventually set the stage for our hierarchical system of classification for flora and fauna—from kingdom down to species ... L ... ....
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What we owe to the self-taught genius Carl Linnaeus
The Spectator 11 Apr 2024
Buffon was French, Linnaeus Swedish ... Yet the Linnaean system of taxonomy has survived much better than Buffon’s, which was hardly a system at all ... Nobody as yet paid any attention to fossils. Most popular. Jake Wallis Simons. Hamas has all but won ... .
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Brainpickings
13 Mar 2024
Something About the Sky: Rachel Carson’s Lost Serenade to the Science of the Clouds, Found ...
Brainpickings
13 Mar 2024
He set out to devise a classification system modeled on the newly popular Linnaean taxonomy of the living world, naming the three main classes cumulus, stratus, and cirrus, then braiding them into various sub-taxonomies ... Rachel Carson, 1951 ... E ... wonder ... .
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Maryville Daily Forum
08 Feb 2024
New England stone walls lie at the intersection of history, archaeology, ecology and geoscience, and ...
Maryville Daily Forum
08 Feb 2024
... the study of these stone walls into an interdisciplinary science by following the precedents of other disciplines – most notably, the 18th-century Linnaean taxonomy that biologists still use today.
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New England stone walls deserve a science of their own
Phys Dot Org 03 Jan 2024
Its goal is to coalesce the study of these stone walls into an interdisciplinary science by following the precedents of other disciplines—most notably, the 18th-century Linnaean taxonomy that biologists still use today ... These are taxonomies.
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The best recent books on science and technology
Economist 17 Jan 2023
By Siddhartha Mukherjee. Scribner; 496 pages; $26.99 ... By Frank Close ... W.W ... From Aristotle’s “Categories” to the Linnaean taxonomy of biology, people are splitters, not lumpers, forever seeking to parse and quantify the world.\n The Equality Machine.
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My Complicated Relationship With the Word 'Hybrid' As a Mixed-Race Person
Time 15 Dec 2022
The father of taxonomy—why must fields of science have fathers?—is Carl Linnaeus, who named more than twelve thousand species ... In Linnaean taxonomy, hybrids look like algebra—two species names adjoined with an x.
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My Complicated Relationship With the Word ‘Hybrid’ As a Mixed-Race Person
Time Magazine 15 Dec 2022
The father of taxonomy—why must fields of science have fathers?—is Carl Linnaeus, who named more than twelve thousand species ... In Linnaean taxonomy, hybrids look like algebra—two species names adjoined with an x.
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World's simplest animals get their place in the tree of life
Science Daily 08 Dec 2022
... century that a backbone Linnaean taxonomy is constructed for an entire animal phylum.
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These are The Economist’s best books of 2022
Economist 06 Dec 2022
Politics and current affairs\n The Impossible City. By Karen Cheung ... By J ... W.W ... From Aristotle’s “Categories” to the Linnaean taxonomy of biology, people are splitters, not lumpers, forever seeking to parse and quantify the world.\n The Equality Machine.
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The heights and depths of humanity’s yearning to quantify
Economist 23 Nov 2022
Beyond Measure. By James Vincent. W. W. Norton; 432 pages; $32.50 ... But units could sometimes be fluid ... From Aristotle’s “Categories” to the Linnaean taxonomy of biology, people are splitters, not lumpers, forever seeking to parse and quantify the world ... ■ .
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We’re one step closer to identifying the first-ever mammals
Popular Science 30 Sep 2022
In Linnaean taxonomy, the way to classify living things developed by Swedish botanist Carlous Linnaeus, all living things are divided into three kingdoms (plants, animals, and minerals), and then subdivided into classes, orders, genuses, and species.
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