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Linnaeus

In Our Time: Science

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The History of Animals

The history of classifications is really the history of botany for a long time. Aristotle didn't quite have a system of classification in his book, The History of Animals. He wanted to describe each one of them in as much detail as he could. As the number of species being described grew, there was a need for exactly the kind of order that Steve was just talking about.

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