Major Developments in Classification Systems Over 2500

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  • Aristotle
    384 BCE

    Aristotle

    Aristotle was a Greek philosopher. He observed the anatomy of many fish, for example Cuttlefish. These observations are very accurate and would have been made from first hand experience. Animals were classified into 'Genera", based on their characteristics. He also separated them into "red blood" and "non red blood", later known as vertebrates and invertebrates.
  • Andrea Cesalpino

    Andrea Cesalpino

    Andrea was an Italian physician, philosopher and botanist. He classified plants according to their fruits and seeds, rather than alphabetically.
  • Carl Linnaeus

    Carl Linnaeus

    Found 2 kingdoms, Vegetabilia and Anamalia.
    Formalised naming system called binomial-nomenclature
  • Haeckel

    Haeckel

    Found 3 kingdoms, Protista, Plantae and studied Anamalia. he also invented many words commonly used by biologists today, such as phylum, phylogeny, and ecology
  • Whittaker

    Whittaker

    He was an American plant ecologist. He was the first to propose the five-kingdoms classification system. Found Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Prosita and Monera in 1969"
  • Woese

    Woese

    American microbiologist who discovered the single-cell prokaryotic organisms known as archaea.