Carl Linnaeus, born in 1707, transformed natural philosophy with his systematic approach to naming plants and animals. Three centuries on naming the creatures of the earth according to this system, and sorting out the relationships between those creatures, has been one of the great triumphs of science, the foundation on which much of biology—and of conservation work—rests. And, in the age of the genome sequence, the work is far from over.

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