Book review of: Marc Ereshefsky. The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
A book review of a book criticizing the famous classification system developed by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707â 1778), which has been used and adapted by biologists over a period of almost 250 years. The review considers theoretical issues in classification and the importance of the b...
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106326 http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/106326 |
| Summary: | A book review of a book criticizing the famous classification system developed by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707â 1778), which has been used and adapted by biologists over a period of almost 250 years.
The review considers theoretical issues in classification and the importance of the book for the field of Knowledge Organization. |
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