One such scientist was Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778), a Swedish physician and botanist who sought to classify life’s diversity, in his words, “for the greter glory of God.”Linnaeus developed the two-part, or binomial, format for naming species (such as Homo sapiens for humans) that is still used to-day. In contrast to the linear hierarchy of the scala naturae, Linnaeus adopted a nested classification system, grouping