CARL LINNAEUSEVOLUTION ASSIGNMENT

KELSEY BOWMAN

SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus

WHO WAS CARL LINNAEUS?• Known as “The Father of Taxonomy”

• Born in Råshult, Sweden

• Lived from May 23rd, 1707 until January 10th, 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

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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

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CAREER

• Met medical professor Rudbeck at Uppsala

• At 23 years old, Linnaeus became a botany lecturer at University Uppsala

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppsala_University_Hospital

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LINNAEUS’ CONTRIBUTION; WHERE & WHEN

• Winter of 1730-1731, 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…

http://www.whichmaps.net/lapland-map/

http://www.snipview.com/q/Flora_Lapponica

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!

EXAMPLES

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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

https://en.wikipedia.org/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

REFERENCES

• http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ki-Lo/Linnaeus-Carl.html

• http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html

• http://www.linnean.org/Education+Resources/who_was_linnaeus

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus

• http://www.famousscientists.org/carolus-linnaeus/