[ **up: [[Biology]]** ] --- # Taxonomy (Biology) [[2024-0730. Taxonomy is the 'science of formally describing species and elucidating their evolutionary relationships.'|Taxonomy is the 'science of formally describing species and elucidating their evolutionary relationships.']][^1] --- [[2024-0802. Modern classification (of life) began with Carl Linnaeus's system of binominal nomenclature in the 1740s.|'Modern classification began with Carl Linnaeus’s system of binomial nomenclature in the 1740s.]][^2] [[2024-0802. The Linnaean system has been modified many times.|The Linnaean system has been modified many times.]][^3] [[2024-0802. While the concept of kingdoms continues to be used by some taxonomists, there has been a movement away from traditional kingdoms.|While the concept of kingdoms continues to be used by some taxonomists, there has been a movement away from traditional kingdoms.]][^4] --- - *See also:* - [[Classification of (these) living things]] - [[Three-domain system]]. [^1]: Simon Grove, *[[Grove. 'Seasons in the South', 2023.|Seasons in the South: A Tasmanian Naturalist's Journey of Discovery—And Recovery]]* (Cambridge, Tas: Forty Degrees South Publishing, 2023), p. 298. [^2]: ‘Kingdom (biology)’, *Wikipedia*, updated 31 March 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(biology). [^3]: ‘Life’, *Wikipedia,* updated 11 April 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life. [^4]: ‘Kingdom (biology)’, *Wikipedia*, updated 31 March 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(biology).