Carolus Linnaeus, 1707-1778, is a Swedish physician. He had interest in studying plants. He observed and noted the characteristics of different types of plants he found. Based on the similarities and differences in the plants, he made classification. Linnaeus published Species Plantarum in the dsitinguished Systema Naturae that includes organism classification. Because of this works, he is known as the founding father of classification (taxonomy)
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