classification

The first great generalizer in classification was Aristotle, who virtually invented the science of logic, of which for 2,000 years classification was a part. Greeks had constant contact with the sea and marine life, and Aristotle seems to have studied it intensively during his stay on the island of Lesbos. In his writings, he described a large number of groups, and, although he ranked them from simple to complex, his order was not an evolutionary one. …

…world can communicate about the organisms more easily. Examples of the binomial system of naming organisms are Banksia serrata (saw banksia), Homo sapiens (human), Felis catus (domestic cat). The first word in the name is the genus name, and it always starts with a capital letter. The second word in the name is the species name, and both words are printed in italics to show that this is the scientific (binomial) name of the organism.