Systematist
Systematics is the field of biology that deals with the diversity of life. It is the study of organisms living today and in the past, and of the relationships among these organisms. System...
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Homo Religiosus
HOMO RELIGIOSUS. When the Swedish botanist Linnaeus developed his system of biological classification in the eighteenth century, the Enlightenment's ideal of rationality strongl...
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The Search for New Systems of Classification
Overview
As naturalists began to expand their reach and study more and more of the Earth, they began to find such a bounty of plants and animals that the c...
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Class
The term Class refers to a taxonomic level within the hierarchical system of classification between Phylum and Order. Organisms are included in this taxon based upon several methods of scientifi...
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Classification
Classification is the categorization of living organisms into a hierarchical series of groups. Based on the work of Carl Linnaeus during the eighteenth century, classification was devis...
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Classification, Biological
Biological classification is a formal system of identifying, naming, and grouping individual organisms. While various systems have existed since antiquity, the modern classi...
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Class
Class is a central part of object-oriented programming. Class is defined as a category of objects, which also defines all the common properties of the different objects that belong to it. A prog...
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Class
Social inequalities are ancient, but the concept of class evolved only in the nineteenth century with the increasing division of labor accompanying industrialization. Karl Marx (1818–1883...
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