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 ...

He illustrates how the continued use of this system hampers our ability to classify the organic world, and then goes on to make specific recommendations for a post-Linnaean method of classification.

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 ...