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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... to shapes of beak and feet. This was the taxonomy later adopted by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, arrogant enough to take the credit for its invention.Birkhead convincingly flies the flag for Ray, both as the father of scientific bird study and the forerunner, in celebrating God's wisdom as an intelligent designer, of a whole tradition of amateur ornithology among aristocratic...
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Ayrshire Blog (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
... was developed and, in particular he shows how it is challenged by taxonomy and by the work of Carl Linnaeus, who laid the foundations of taxonomy.Belief in a mankind made "in the image" of God has to be reconciled to the undeniable similarity between humans and the great apes in their bodily structure and form and in their behaviour both individually and in groups.( See this ). Even...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
... on Earth, and its members are critical components in virtually all non-marine ecosystems. Carl Linnaeus, who devised the scientific classification system still in use today, compiled the first index of Diptera species names in 1758. But even though an average of 800 new Diptera names are proposed every year, the nomenclature has not been comprehensively updated since 1805. Thompson...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
A statue of botanist Carl Linnaeus stands along the Linnaeus botanic track, in the Swedish national heritage park Skansen in Stockholm. Gathered in Paris last week, the world's leading taxonomists feted the brilliant and vainglorious Swedish naturalist who, 250 years ago, single-handedly created the system of classification they still use.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Diptera is one of the four largest groups of living organisms on Earth, and its members are critical components in virtually all non-marine ecosystems. Carl Linnaeus, who devised the scientific classification system still in use today, compiled the first index of Diptera species names in 1758. But even though an average of 800 new Diptera names are proposed every year, the nomenclature...
