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May 23: Carolus Linnaeus

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Swedish botanist and explorer Carolus Linnaeus, born this day in 1707, was the first to frame principles for defining genera and species of organisms and to create a uniform system for naming them. The Linnaean system of binomial nomenclature was established in the 1750s.