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For the first 9 editions (1735-1756), Linnaeus’ classification of man remained stable, with the human species divided into four types, or “varieties”, as he called them in Latin. Quadrupeds in Systema naturae 2nd edition, 1740. Europaeus albus: European white. Americanus rubescens: American reddish.
Mar 19, 2021 · Botanist Carl Linnaeus’ classification system has been adopted around the globe—but have we adequately reckoned with how his ideas about humans laid the groundwork for scientific racism?
Linnaeus’s system of taxonomy revolutionized how biologists categorized and understood relationships between animals. This transformation had a profound effect on theories of race, as Linnaeus and many of his followers defined race as analogous to species.
Expanding on the work of Carolus Linnaeus, German professor of medicine Johann Friedrich Blumenbach introduced one of the race-based classifications in On the Natural Variety of Mankind. In the second edition Blumenbach changed his original geographically based four-race arrangement to a five-group one that emphasized physical morphology (the ...
In the 1758 tenth edition of Systema nature (Natural System), Linnaeus created the first formal, non-scientific human racial classification scheme. It included five varieties of Homo sapiens “Americanus,” “Europaeus,” “Asiaticus,” “Afer,” and “Ferus” based on physical and cultural descriptions that favored Europeans.
May 19, 2024 · Carolus Linnaeus (born May 23, 1707, Råshult, Småland, Sweden—died January 10, 1778, Uppsala) was a Swedish naturalist and explorer who was the first to frame principles for defining natural genera and species of organisms and to create a uniform system for naming them (binomial nomenclature).
