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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 namingLinnaeus invented genus-species shorthand in 1735
living editsDNA keeps demoting animals from their old families
naming rightsDiscoverers can legally name species after themselves
kingdom countIt once jumped from two kingdoms to six
rude tributesSome species honor enemies as slime molds