Taxonomy
By: Katelyn McGill
three taxonomy scientists
Aristotle
Scientific: Politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theater. Aristotle is a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy, making contributions to logic, metaphysics, biology, botany, ethics, politics, agriculture, medicine, dance, and theater.
Biology: Aristotle believed that the four earthly elements moved in straight lines, but the ¨first element¨ followed a perfect path, a circle, explaining why heavenly bodies followed circular paths around earth. The perfect ¨first element¨ did not combine with other elements, it remained forever pure. The sun. moon, planets, and stars were perfect because they contained this element.
Carolus Linnaeus
scientific: At the age of 28 Carl traveled to the university of Hardewijk in the Netherlands to get a doctoral degree in medicine. Within two weeks at the university Carl got diagnosed a patient, and became a doctor. In the Netherlands Carl met Johan Gronovius, a Dutch botanist. Carl showed Gronovius his recent writing on the classification of naming plants. Gronovius saw that Linnaeus's idea could change botany, so he wanted to get his book published right away. Gronovius contacted his friend Isaac Lawson, a Scottish doctor, and together they paid for Linnaeus's book to be published. In 1737 the first edition of Systema Naturae came out.
Biology: Carl was the first person to place humans in the primate family and to describe bats as mammals rather than birds. Carl didn't place humans alongside apes with any idea of an evolutionary link. He did it the same reasoning he used to categorize all life, which was similarities he identified between species.
Lynn Margulis
Personal: She was born March 5, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois. Margulis married astronomer Carl Sagan in 1957 soon after she got her bachelor's degree.They had two sons Dorion Sagan, who later became a popular science writer and her collaborator, and Jeremy Sagan, software developer and founder of Sagan Technology. Their marriage ended in 1964
Scientific: She was an American evolutionary theorist, taxonomist, bacteriologist, protistology, and botanist, with advanced degrees in zoology and genetics. The entire life on earth was traditionally classified into five kingdoms, as introduced by Robert Whittaker in 1969.Margulis became the most important supporter, as well as critic. Margulis initially sought out the advice of Lovelock for her own research: she explained that, "In the early seventies, I was trying to align bacteria by their metabolic pathways. I noticed that all kinds of bacteria produced gases.
Biology: Mitochondria are thought to have descended from close relatives of typhus-causing bacteria.