Linnaeus' original ideas have been adapted, but continue to be accepted and as new species are identified they can be fitted into the current classification system. As more scientific methods ...

Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) was a Swedish naturalist who became known as the father of taxonomy. Taxonomy, the practice of classification, creates order from the chaos of nature by allowing us to group ...

and then goes on to make specific recommendations for a post-Linnaean method of classification. "Linnaean classification is pre-Darwinian, yet evolutionary biologists continue to use it to describe ...