BIOL 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Luca Ghini, Botany, Deism
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Describing and arranging organisms: biological classification, important tasks of biological classification compiling an inventory of diversity providing a scientific name to each species and grouping. Common names are useful but are not universally accepted. What"s the di erence that we are trying to capture in the name. Thought that di erent species had di erent essences. before evolution essentialism after evolution population thinking. Members of a species are interbreeding members descended from a common ancestor, this creates a boundary between species. This allows large variation within a species and as long as they meet the boundary speci cation then they can be the same species. fitting species into higher (more inclusive) natural groupings: artificial vs. natural classification. They started doing this before they realized they were mapping out evolutionary relationships. Can put everything that is green in one class, but does not provide a biologically important group. This can have some uses like in identi cation manuals.
