Taxonomy, the legacy of Linnaeus, transformed to phylogenomics

Abstract

This is the tercentenary year of Carl Linnaeus, father of taxonomy, who was born in Sweden and lived from 1707 to 1778. The year 2007 therefore provides an occasion to remember the important contributions of Linnaeus to taxonomic biology, made in the mid-seventieth century and to review their relationship to the biology of the early twenty-first century.