Carolus Linnaeus, also known as Carl Linnaeus, was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician who is considered the father of modern taxonomy. He was born on May 23, 1707, in Råshult, Sweden, and died on January 10, 1778, in Uppsala, Sweden.
Linnaeus made significant contributions to the field of biological classification and developed the binomial nomenclature system, which is still used today to name and categorize organisms. This system assigns each species a unique two-part name consisting of a genus and a species epithet. For example, humans are classified as Homo sapiens, where Homo is the genus and sapiens is the species epithet.
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