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On the Lighter Side => Famous Scientists, Doctors and Inventors => Topic started by: SpiralChiral on 28/01/2012 02:18:57

Title: How was Linnaeus able to name so many species?
Post by: SpiralChiral on 28/01/2012 02:18:57
How was Linnaeus able to name so many species?
Title: Re: How was Linnaeus able to name so many species?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 28/01/2012 04:30:16
He had a lot of spare time? (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbestsmileys.com%2Flol%2F11.gif&hash=e7aa5d03392d671ef4191f256ffc5ab1)
Title: Re: How was Linnaeus able to name so many species?
Post by: Don_1 on 28/01/2012 14:48:18
Linnaeus used a system of sexual reproduction organs to determine species families.

Flowers with 1 female & two male staman fall into one category, 2 female & 3 male another and so on.

In fact John Ray (http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/ray.html) had already devised a better system of placing species into groups and had identified a great many species.
Title: Re: How was Linnaeus able to name so many species?
Post by: Tomassci on 28/05/2017 06:51:50
Linnaeus "getted" many species from the world scientists.
Title: Re: How was Linnaeus able to name so many species?
Post by: evan_au on 28/05/2017 12:23:46
Because his students traveled the world looking for new species.

One was Daniel Solander, who traveled with James Cook on his round-the world expedition to exotic places like Tahiti, New Zealand, New Guinea and Australia which had rarely been visited by a trained botanist.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Solander
Title: Re: How was Linnaeus able to name so many species?
Post by: alancalverd on 28/05/2017 21:50:18
He didn't, any more than Rowland Hill wrote lots of letters. He simply invented a system by which other people could do it.