home.social

#carllinnaeus — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #carllinnaeus, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Birth Anniversary: Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who established conventions for the naming of living organisms that became universally accepted in the scientific world. 10 little known facts.

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/

    #BirthAnniversary #CarlLinnaeus

  2. #TIL
    #TodayILearned
    #CarlLinnaeus, the father of biological taxonomy is the representative example of Homo sapiens:

    Wikipedia – “Linnaeus's remains constitute the type specimen for the species Homo sapiens following the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, since the sole specimen that he is known to have examined was himself.”

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lin