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	Linnaean taxonomy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A strength of Linnaean taxonomy is that it can be used to develop a simple and practical system for organizing the different kinds of living organisms.
		This uniqueness and stability are, of course, a result of the acceptance by working systematists (biologists specializing in taxonomy); not merely of the binomial nomenclature in itself, but of much more complex codes of rules and procedures governing the use of these names.
		"Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing—with each species in its prescribed place in an album; but taxonomy is a fundamental and dynamic science, dedicated to exploring the causes of relationships and similarities among organisms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Linnaean_taxonomy (841 words)

	Taxonomy
		Anthropologists have observed that taxonomies are generally embedded in local cultural and social systems, and serve various social functions.
		Such taxonomies as those analyzed by Durkheim and Levi-Strauss are sometimes called folk taxonomies to distinguish them from scientific taxonomies that claim to be disembedded from social relations and thus objective and universal.
		The most well-known and widely used scientific taxonomy is Linnaean taxonomy which classifies living things and originated with Carolus Linnaeus.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ta/Taxonomy.html (320 words)

	Scientific classification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scientific classification belongs to the science of taxonomy or biological systematics.
		The approach he took to the classification of plants in his Historia Plantarum was an important step towards modern taxonomy.
		Even though the parallel use of nomina trivialia and many-worded descriptive names continued until late in the eighteenth century, it was gradually replaced by the practice of using shorter proper names combined of the generic name and the trivial name of the species.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Linnaean_classification (2016 words)

	Linnaean taxonomy Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Linnaean taxonomy is widely used in the biological sciences.
		Linnaean taxonomy classifies living things into a hierarchy, starting with domains or kingdoms.
		The most important aspect of this is the general use of binomial nomenclature, the combination of a genus name and a specific epithet ('tuberosa', in the example above), to uniquely identify each species of organism.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/l/li/linnaean_taxonomy.html (626 words)

	Felid Taxonomy
		The taxonomy currently in use for biological organisms, the Linnaean taxonomy, is more than 250 years old and even predates the theory of evolution.
		This is a problem for the Linnaean system, and it happened because scientists of that time didn't have any way to know which organisms were actually related.
		The Linnaean taxonomy has been and continues to be updated, shifting more towards genetic relationships rather than physical similarities.
	www.bigcats.com /felidtaxon.php (316 words)

	Biognomen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is a Linnaean taxonomy arranged to show the evolutionary relationships among taxa.
		The first problem with cladistic taxonomy is that many biologists are attempting to graft it onto the incompatible Linnaean system, insisting that each taxon should be a clade.
		This practice is less objectionable for they are not rampaging through the traditional taxonomy, messing it up for no good reason, though they do have a tendency to hijack traditional terms that have passed into vernacular language, and try to convince people that birds are dinosaurs or whatnot.
	webpages.charter.net /teefile/biognomen/index.html (472 words)

	Taxonomy FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Taxonomies (using the term broadly to include even shallow taxonomies like subject headings) are critical tools for organizing information.
		Although many taxonomy requirements documents and requests for proposals specify that the taxonomy include three (or even four or more) levels, the right number of levels is highly dependent on the particular content being organized.
		Taxonomy is derived from the Greek tassein, to arrange.
	www.taxotips.com /resources/faq (836 words)

	Taxonomies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Taxonomy (from Greek ''ταξινομία'' ''(taxinomia)'' from the words ''taxis'' = order and ''nomos'' = law) may refer to either a hierarchical classification of things, or the principles underlying the classification.
		''Taxonomy'' may refer to either a hierarchical classification of things, or the principles underlying the classification, it is principally used in the context of biology to refer to scientific classification.
		:''Taxonomy in general refers either to a hierarchical classification of things, or the principles underlying that classification.'' Linnaean taxonomy is a system of classification widely used in the biological sciences.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/177/taxonomies.html (1174 words)

	Responses from Kevin De Queiroz
		Perhaps this was not a wise decision,because the term "evolutionary taxonomy" has been applied to avery different approach to taxonomy that was prevalent duringthe middle part of this century and is still embraced by somebiologists.
		The problem with yourstatement that a universally accepted Linnean taxonomy wouldbe as useful as a phylogenetic taxonomy is that there is nouniversally accepted taxonomy (Linnean or phylogenetic), and abasic tenet of the current codes of nomenclature is to opposethe intellectual tyranny that would be needed to achieve one.
		Linnaean taxonomy is used in almost allscientific textbooks and is embedded in most everyones brainsbrain.
	ib.berkeley.edu /courses/ib160/vdg/DeQueiroz.html (8537 words)

	Wikipedia: Scientific classification
		His classification of plants in his Historia Plantarum was an important step towards modern taxonomy.
		Since the 1960s, however, a trend called cladism or cladistic taxonomy, has emerged and is expected to supplant Linnaean classification.
		A formal code of phylogenetic nomenclature, the PhyloCode [1], is currently under development for a cladistic taxonomy that abandons the Linnaean structure.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/s/sc/scientific_classification_1.html (956 words)

	Lecture: Life Classification, Dr. Rodrigue
		At the species level, the Linnaean system designates a group of creatures so similar to one another, so closely related, that they reproduce with one another to make offspring that can survive and compete long enough to reproduce successfully in their turn.
		So, taxonomy or systematics (the science of classifying organisms), which was a pretty sleepy subject when I went to college, is now hot with debate and has seen a great expansion of information that can be used for analyzing lineages, which is where this concern with cladistic analysis comes from: a.
		Basically, just remember that taxonomy is a hot field now, with a great deal of debate and controversy going on, and that cladistic taxonomists are trying to come up with a binary approach to classification that creates unambiguous taxa (plural for taxon) that are demonstrably clades (all descendants of some basal group ancestor).
	www.csulb.edu /~rodrigue/geog140/lectures/linnaean.html (2077 words)

	Taxonomy Summary - Taxonomy Information
		Taxonomy is the practice of classifying and naming biological organisms and groups of biological organisms.
		Modern taxonomy originated in the eighteenth century with the work of a Swedish botanist, Carolus Linnaeus, who developed an organized hierarchical classification system that could be applied to all biological organisms.
		Under the Linnaean system, all organisms are classified hierarchically into a series of groups from most inclusive to least inclusive.
	www.bookrags.com /sciences/biology/taxonomy-ansc-04.html (498 words)

	Untitled Document
		Taxonomies are hierarchical classification systems that organize the world around us.
		A taxonomy is a tree structured classification for a set of objects.
		In 1990, based on new discoveries showing the relationships between species it was proposed that the bipartite prokaryote-eukaryote view of life be replaced with a tripartite super kingdom scheme of bacteria, archaea, and eucarya.
	www.zibs.com /thomas1.shtml (1427 words)

	Carolus Linnaeus - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In it, the unwieldy descriptions mostly used at the time, such as "physalis amnoramosissime ramis angulosis glabris foliis dentoserratis", were replaced by the concise and now familiar genus-species namesin the form Physalisangulata.
		Linnaeus developed,during the great 18th century expansion of natural history knowledge, whatbecame known as the Linnaean taxonomy: the system of scientific classification now widely used in the biological sciences.
		The Linnaean system classified living things within a hierarchy, starting withtwo kingdoms.
	www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=L. (963 words)

	CBN Archives - Paleontology and Evolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Taxonomy: The science of classifying plants and animals into species and logical groups of species.
		The traditional, or Linnaean, taxonomy is still largely in favor among field workers, conservationists, and husbandry people.
		Due to the sheer number of clades (all of which are generally assigned names), cladistic taxonomy becomes impractical when trying to simultaneously describe all of the world's 3,000 some odd reptile species, let alone the two to ten million species of plants, animals, and micro-organisms that are known or presumed to exist.
	coloherp.org /cb-news/archive/taxonomy/Taxonomy.php (676 words)

	BZN 58(2) General Articles & Nomenclatural Notes
		Redundancy is introduced because the Linnaean hierarchy is equidistant: that is to say, every taxon is included in a continuity of ranks from Genus to Kingdom (although this is not stated as mandatory in the Zoological Code).
		This is the annotated Linnaean system which by the use of a few conventions (Nelson, 1974; Patterson and Rosen, 1977; Wiley, 1979) can absorb the problems caused by rank yet allow those who wish to retain rank to do so for their own purposes.
		Historically, in Linnaean Taxonomy apomorphy-based names are those which have caused most confusion, as Rowe and Gauthier (1992) point out in the context of the naming of Mammalia.
	www.iczn.org /BZNJun2001general_articles.htm (6868 words)

	Linnaean taxonomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Species: Asclepias tuberosa (the milkweed distinguished by its tuberous root and orange-red flowers) A strength of Linnaean Taxonomy is that it can be used to develop a simple and practical system for organizing the different kinds of living organism s.
		Linnaean taxonomy classifies living things into a hierarchy,...
		Linnaean taxonomy of Late Triassic Plants of Petrified Forest National Park Compiled by WG Parker a
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Linnaean_taxonomy.html (1405 words)

	The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy - Cambridge University Press
		The question of whether biologists should continue to use the Linnaean hierarchy is a hotly debated issue.
		He traces the evolution of the Linnaean hierarchy from its introduction to the present.
		Accessible to a wide range of readers by providing introductory chapters to the philosophy of classification and the taxonomy of biology, the book will interest both scholars and students of biology and the philosophy of science.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0511030800&print=y (301 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Cladistics - A392186
		Not all Linnaean taxa are monophyletic: the Linnaean definition of the Reptilia, for example, does not include birds, which are descendants of members of that taxon.
		Another difference between Linnaean and cladistic taxonomy is the nomenclature used to describe the taxa.
		According to Linnaean taxonomy, the lungfish and the salmon both belong in the Osteichthyes (bony fish), which excludes tetrapods.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A392186 (2240 words)

	Teacher Notes for Cladistics Exercise
		This is referred to as the Linnaean system of classification (or as Linnaean taxonomy), and is the source of such familiar categories as kingdom, phylum, and class, (though not genus and species).
		All birds, and as far as is known nothing else, have feathers, so in the Linnaean system Class Aves could be defined as all organisms with feathers, and any organism with feathers would be, by definition, a bird.
		Linnaean taxonomy recognizes many paraphyletic groups, but cladistic taxonomy rejects them all.
	www.geology.wisc.edu /~museum/hughes/cladistics_notes.html (2860 words)

	Biological Nomenclature - Brummitt: Happy with the Present Code
		A classification according to phylogeny is possible but is incompatible with the Linnaean system and would have a different structure without orders, families, genera etc. If such a system is considered desirable, it cannot replace the Linnaean system but should be parallel with it.
		But whereas the Linnaean classification would be based on observable facts, a purely phylogenetic classification would be usually based largely on unverifiable suppositions.
		Hennig's proposal to eliminate paraphyletic taxa was based on a failure to see the difference between the Linnaean hierarchy in which all taxa are nested in the next higher taxon, and a phylogenetic hierarchy which is not so nested, the lower levels of the hierarchy being not equivalent to the higher levels.
	www.life.umd.edu /emeritus/reveal/PBIO/nomcl/brum.html (2257 words)

	Scientific classification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is now generally accepted that classification should reflect the Darwinian principle of common descent, so that taxa include a single section of the evolutionary tree.
		Since the 1960s a trend called cladistic taxonomy or cladism has emerged as a rival to more traditional phylogenetic classification.
		In these approaches, the ranking system in Linnaean taxonomy may be abandoned, and a new formal code of nomenclature, the Phylocode, is currently under development.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Scientific_classification (963 words)

	The KLI Theory Lab - keywords - taxonomy
		Ereshefsky, M. Linnaean hierarchy: Vestiges of a bygone era.
		Ereshefsky, M. The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy.
		Keywords: clades cladistics •; management • organization • taxonomy.
	www.kli.ac.at /theorylab/Keyword/T/taxonomy.html (344 words)

	Marc Ereshefsky's Academic Home Page
		The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy.
		"The Evolution of the Linnaean Hierarchy," Biology and Philosophy (1997), 12, pp.
		“Systematics and Taxonomy.” In The Blackwell Campanion to Philosophy of Biology.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~ereshefs (453 words)

	The Microsoft Institute Research - Text Generation and User Modelling on the Web
		A user model modulates the user's view of the animal taxonomy depending on whether she elects to be an expert or novice.
		This taxonomy is used to augment each property in the knowledge base with its associated type, and employed to construct comparisons between animal properties, as demonstrated in Section 5.
		The Linnaean relationship between two nodes in the hierarchy is determined by traversing up the animal taxonomy to find their lowest common ancestor.
	www.ics.mq.edu.au /~mariam/papers/um96/nlg-um-www.html (2193 words)

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