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After a board of trustees vote late last month, Gustavus Adolphus College has officially renamed its arboretum by removing a reference to Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus. The Arboretum at Gustavus ...

Robyn Williams: Classification of animals and plants is essential for biological science to work. The Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus adopted the use of binomial names. He will be 300 on the 23rd May ...

Safe to say that without Carl Linnaeus, we wouldn't have the term 'homo sapiens'. The 18th-century Swedish botanist is credited with inventing binomial nomenclature, the system of naming and grouping ...

ST. PETER, Minn. (AP) — A private college in Minnesota has renamed its arboretum that honored an 18th-century Swedish botanist who has been criticized for classifying humans in a way now seen as ...

The flowering Lagerstroemia species of the crape myrtle tree can be seen at the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu ...

Carl Linnaeus developed the Latin two-word system for organising the natural world that is still in use today, writes ENDA O'DOHERTY The botanist Carolus Linnaeus was born Carl Nilsson Linnaeus in ...

The most influential person on Wikipedia has been revealed, but rather than Jesus or Barack Obama taking the top spot, it has strangely gone to a Swedish botanist. Carl Linnaeus, who topped the list ...

It was a red-letter day June 8 for Tulsa-area gardeners. Hundreds of excited well-wishers gathered in Woodward Park to celebrate the grand opening of the Linnaeus Teaching Garden. The garden is a ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The field of plant-humanities includes botany, taxonomy and plant evolution on the one hand, and literature, law and the arts on the other. Recent publications have covered ...

Oct. 12—ST. PETER — After a board of trustees vote late last month, Gustavus Adolphus College has officially renamed its arboretum by removing a reference to Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus. The ...