CARL LINNAEUS EVOLUTION ASSIGNMENT KELSEY BOWMAN SEPTEMBER 28 TH,

WHO WAS CARL LINNAEUS? Known as “The Father of Taxonomy” Born in Råshult, Sweden Lived from May 23rd, 1707 until January 10 th, 1778 Child of of Nils (a church minister) and Christina Linnaeus Oldest of five children, three sisters and a brother Married Sara Elisabeth Moraea in 1738 Together they had 6 children omy_long_apron

EARLY EDUCATION AND INTERESTS Interested in plants and botany at a very young age Most teachers did not consider botany a proper subject Johan Rothman recognized Linnaeus’ talent Carl lived with Rothman, was delivered formal lessons in medicine & botany Studied at the University of Lund for a year Science & medical courses were weak, so he transferred to Uppsala University roots-clip-art-image

CAREER Met medical professor Rudbeck at Uppsala At 23 years old, Linnaeus became a botany lecturer at University Uppsala ki/File:Uppsala_University_ seal.svg

LINNAEUS’ CONTRIBUTION; WHERE & WHEN Winter of , he was granted funding to travel to Lapland He discovered 100 new plants, then wrote a book on his findings This is where he began to use his two part naming system… and-map/ apponica

THE LINNAEAN/BINOMIAL SYSTEM Carl Linnaeus realized he could use this system for animals as well At age 28, Linnaeus went to Harderwijk, a university in the Netherlands to become a doctor of medicine Prior to this, he had written a thesis about Malaria at Uppsala Within two weeks, he was officially a doctor!

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FURTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS With the help of Johan Frederik Gronovius, a Dutch botanist (Netherlands), Linnaeus published the first edition of Systema Naturae in 1737 Linnaeus did not quit, he continued to develop the book by editing and adding new species. Over a 30 year span, the book grew from 12 to 2400 pages This was the first published document to try and record all species covering our Earth wiki/Order_(biology)

MORE ABOUT HIS CONTRIBUTION This classification of species is called taxonomy. In order to classify species, Linnaeus looked for similarities Now a days, DNA is studied to classify In a time where the amount of unknown organisms was overwhelming, Linnaeus’ efforts with the two part naming system made understanding such a vast topic easier

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