Taxonomy
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A Day That Left Me Quiet
Yesterday was a very sad day—one that left my heart strangely quiet, as if the world had dimmed by a shade. I lost the professor because of whom I am in the field of taxonomy today. He was Prof. Kamal Choudhury, a teacher whose belief in me shaped the direction of my life. It’s hard Continue reading
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When Science Got Personal: How Linnaeus Immortalized His Critic as a Weed
Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy, once famously got his revenge on a critic through scientific naming. The critic was Johann Georg Siegesbeck, a Prussian botanist who harshly criticized Linnaeus’s sexual system of plant classification, calling it “loathsome harlotry” because it described plant reproduction in terms of male and female parts. In response, Linnaeus Continue reading
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