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Carl von Linne, a Swedish botanist and zoologist produced the hierarchical classification system we use today. He used Latin and Greek as the basis of naming and thus Latinised his name to Carolus Linnaeus.

He was born in 1707 and died in 1778. One of his books was called Systema Naturae. He classified and named 12000 species, a feat facilitated by possible Asperger Syndrome. The system today uses hierarchical levels, the common-to-all-organisms ranks being: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species.

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The person who started it all was a Swedish botanist, zoologist and doctor, known as Carolus Linnaeus (as he wrote mostly in Latin) his real name was Carl von Linne.

In the early 1700's he started classifying plants animals and minerals according to their characteristics. He wrote many books on these subjects and became a world leader in this science, known now as 'taxonomy' .

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Carolus (Carl) Linnaeus

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