Creating Order Out of Chaos
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the exploration of new lands brought large numbers of unknown animals and plants to the attention of naturalists. European explorers returned from other parts of the world with so many unidentified organisms that it became difficult to keep track of them all. Before the introduction of Carolus Linnaeus's binomial system, there was no accepted method for naming and classifying animals and plants. Linnaeus provided a system for grouping organisms in a manner that reflected the relationships between the organisms.
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