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Nature 447, 28 (3 May 2007) | doi:10.1038/447028a; Published online 2 May 2007
Long shadow of Linnaeus's human taxonomy
Jonathan Marks1
- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, USA
Your 15 March issue honouring Carl Linnaeus brings to mind what is probably his most significant contribution to modern life: the idea that groups of people can be regarded as naturally distinct taxonomic entities, or subspecies, in the same fashion as species, genera and higher categories.In the first edition of Systema Naturae, published in 1735, before formalizing binominal species nomenclature, Linnaeus presented humans as sorting naturally into whitish Europeans (Homo Europaeus albescens), reddish Americans, dark Asians and blackish Africans.
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