Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus is known as “The Father of Taxonomy.” He was the first person to establish classification systems to distinguish between the organisms of plants and animals, a system that is still used today. Born on May 23, 1707, Linnaeus is sometimes known as the “Second Adam,” which is referring to Adam in the Bible, who gave all of the animals in the Garden of Eden their names. Linnaeus is also given credit for creating the name for humans, “homo-sapiens.” He died on January 10, 1778 in Uppsala, Sweden of a stroke.
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