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the obsessive art of putting nature in boxes that nature refuses to stay inside
means The science of naming, describing, and classifying living things (or any set of things) into ordered, ranked groups.
from From Greek táxis, 'arrangement, order' (the same root behind 'tactics' and 'syntax'), joined to -nomía, 'law' or 'method' (from némein, 'to distribute or manage'). The compound was minted as a scientific term in the early 19th century by Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, originally for the orderly classification of plants — literally 'the law of arrangement.'
- two-word naming
- Linnaeus invented genus-species shorthand in 1735
- living edits
- DNA keeps demoting animals from their old families
- naming rights
- Discoverers can legally name species after themselves
- kingdom count
- It once jumped from two kingdoms to six
- rude tributes
- Some species honor enemies as slime molds
linnean classification system — carl linnaeus's 1735 hierarchical biological classification still used globally
bloom's taxonomy of education — benjamin bloom's 1956 framework categorizing learning objectives from knowledge to evaluation
dewey decimal system — melvil dewey's 1876 library classification organizing books by 10 main subject classes