So, now we know 'why are animals classified?', 'how are animals classified?'
But do you know first people who classified animals? Now in this article you are going to read about people who first classified animals and the different ways they did their classification.
After the language came into existence people named animals differently in different languages. Our scientific temper had triggered us to order and categorize living and non-living things for understanding and studying them easily. We observed, named and compared animals and plants.
So our first contestant in classification list is from Ancient Greece, he was an philosopher ad the first known man to classify animals, and he is Aristotle. He classified animals according to their various characteristics.
Eg- 1. Do they lay eggs or give birth to young ones.
2. Are they warm blooded or cold blooded.
The second contestant is the writer of book which is considered as the first encyclopedia. The Roman Naturalist who was the writer of Naturalis Historia (first considered encyclopedia) and he is Pliny the Elder. He did research in 1st century AD, he died in 79 AD.
Then we find our next contestant in 17th century AD. The English naturalist John Ray published works on botany and zoology. He classified animals on the basis of the similarities he observed, and he was the first person who gave the scientific definition to the word 'Species'.
So, these were all people who were famous for classifying animals, but their systems are not very systematic. So our last contestant of this list is from 18th Century, he is known as the father of modern taxonomy. He is Carl Linnaeus a Swedish botanist. He popularized the binomial naming system and introduced the used of kingdoms, orders, classes, genera and species. This system of Linnaeus is still used today.
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