Gavin’s Digital Diner

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I’m reminded of the Dormouse’s advice to Alice when I start to talk about philosophy.
… "you know you say things are much of a muchness," said the Dormouse, — "did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?" "Really, now you ask me," said Alice, very much confused, "I don’t [...]

Carolus von Linnaeus (1707 – 1778) is credited with introducing binomial nomenclature and hierarchical classification as an organized way of naming and describing organisms and their relationships to one another. Linnaeus, by the way, is known as the father of the modern taxonomy. Taxonomy is typically considered the science of classification.
Binomial nomenclature refers to [...]