The Development of Biological Systematics

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A reevaluation of the history of biological systematics that discusses the formative years of the so-called natural system of classification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows how classifications came to be treated as conventions, systematic practice was not linked to clearly articulated theory, there was general confusion over the "shape" of nature, botany, elements of natural history, and systematics were conflated, and systematics took a position near the bottom of the hierarchy of sciences.