Systema Naturae 250: The Linnaean Ark - Paperback

by Andrew Polaszek (Editor)

The advent of relational data basing and data storage capacity, coupled with revolutionary advances in molecular sequencing technology and specimen imaging, have led to a taxonomic renaissance. Beginning with Linnaeus and his "apostles" via the great unsung hero Charles Davies Sherbon (arguably the father of bioinformatics) up to today's Planetary Biodiversity Inventories and tomorrow's Encyclopedia of Life and web-based taxonomy, this book provides scientific, historical, and cultural documentation of the evolution of taxonomy and the successful adaptation of the Linnean nomenclature system to that evolution.