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Principles of animal taxonomy George Gaylord Simpson
Publisher: Columbia University Press

Okay, so I was talking about FPJ 140 or ZOO 140 (Animal Taxonomy). Yeah, it is difficult but it is not boring at all. Most think that taxonomy is boring and difficult. Biological systematics: principles and applications. In this art there is a leeway for Principles of animal taxonomy. The choice of the names by which we refer to the individual species, genera or families in the animal kingdom is ruled by a set of principles known as the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[2] (hereafter, 'the Code'). Linnaeus, Carolus (kärō'ləs lĭnā'əs), 1707-78, Swedish botanist and taxonomist, considered the founder of the binomial system of nomenclature and the originator of modern scientific classification of plants and animals. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. This is because introducing a new species name, or otherwise intervening on the use of the scientific names of animals, is not simply a way to translate into words the author's view on a particular problem of animal taxonomy. New York: Columbia University Press. Taxonomy is a science, but its application to classification involves a great deal of human contrivance and ingenuity, in short, of art. He studied botany and medicine and Of his higher groupings, only those for animals are still in use, and the groupings themselves have been significantly changed since their conception, as have the principles behind them.