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Linnaeus

In Our Time: Science

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The Life of Linnaeus

Stella: Linnaeus' biology survives only in the formal aspects of binomial nomenclature. But he could probably claim to be the most influential biologist before Darwin, she says. Stella: He developed the idea that nature is a finely balanced system of mutual dependencies between species. It continued to be an important idea for Darwin.

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