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Classification

History of Classification Notes

Aristotle was the first known individual to classify living things. He had two major groups... plants and animals. He further subdivided each of these groups. Plants were seperated based on there size (structure)... herbs, shrubs, and trees. Animals were grouped according towhere they lived...land, sea, or air.

Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) was a Swedish naturalist. He is considered the "Father of Taxonomy" because he developed the system by which we name organisms today. [Sometimes referred to as Carl von Linne']

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1707-1836) a French contemporary of Linneaus who established the major subdivisions of the plant kingdom.

Georges Leoplod Cuvier (1769-1832) the Frenchman who established major "embranchments", now known as phyla, for the animal kingdom.

Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) German who introduced the monera kingdom.

Herbert F. Copeland (1902-1968) an American who reclassified all the microorganisms, championed the Kingdom protistica for all the nucleated microorganisms.

Robert H. Whitaker (1924-1980) the American who founded the five kingdom system by elevating the fungi to kingdom statis.