Robyn Williams: Classification of animals and plants is essential for biological science to work. The Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus adopted the use of binomial names. He will be 300 on the 23rd May ...

Carl Linnaeus is most famous as the father of modern taxonomy. What’s not so well known is that in his effort to manage vast amounts of data, he came up with a revolutionary invention: the index card.

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For two years in the late 1970s I followed in the footsteps of Carl Linnaeus: I toiled in the field of taxonomy. The small corner of nature's jigsaw puzzle that I tackled was a group of marine sponges ...

As a warm-up to a birthday celebration, it was sedate, and also spartan. There was no cake. There were no candles. There was just a bunch of middle-aged men standing around in the back room of the ...