Carl Linnaeus
1707 – 1778 · Sweden · Biology
Binomial nomenclature: every species on Earth still carries his two-name system.
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Who shaped Carl Linnaeus, and who they shaped
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- Charles Darwin
1809 – 1882 · Biology
Linnaean classification gave Darwin the ordered pattern that common descent explains.
- George Washington Carver
1864 – 1943 · Biology, Chemistry
Systematic botany is the discipline Carver applied to Southern soil and crop rotation.
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1769 – 1859Invented the idea that nature is a single connected web — and that we can wreck it.
Charles Darwin
1809 – 1882Explained the whole of life with one mechanism: descent with modification.