A little-remembered rivalry that shaped the modern world

Statue of Comte de Buffon.

2024-04-30  680  中等

Homo sapiens. Tyrannosaurus rex. Boa constrictor. Even the layest of laymen know that the scientific names of species have two parts. Some may recall that this convention was invented by Carl Linnaeus, a Swede. Classifying nature was a pre-occupation of natural historians in the 18th century, and Linnaeus’s way won out.

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