History of Systematics Flashcards
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History of Systematics
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- Ancients
- Herbalists
- Pivotal period
- Natural System
- Period of Phylogenetic Systems
- Phylogenetic and Molecular systematics
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Date: Ancients
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2000 BC - 1500 AD
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Date: Herbalists
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1500 AD - 1580 AD
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Date: Pivotal Period
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1580 AD - 1800 AD
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Date: Natural System
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1760 AD - 1880 AD
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Date: Period of Phylogenetic Systems
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1859 AD - Till date
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Date: Phylogenetic and Molecular Systematics
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1993 AD - Till date
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Ancients
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- Theophrastus and essentialism
- classification by habitat, emphasis on genus
- “Ladder of Life” or “Great chain of being” or “Scalae Naturae”
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Herbalists
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- Pedanius Dioscorides:
- De Materia Medica and connection of Greek medicine, plants and classification
- German herbalists and their herbals:
- classification of medicinal properties
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People in the Pivotal Period
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- Andrea Caesalpino
- John Ray
- Pierre Magnol
- Carolus Linnaeus (Carl Linnaeus):
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Pivotal Period: Andrea Caesalpino
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beginning of natural thought
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Pivotal Period: John Ray
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The concept of ‘class’ [orders]
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Pivotal Period: Pierre Magnol
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The concept of family
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Pivotal Period: Carolus Linnaeus (Carl Linnaeus)
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- sexual system of classification in Species Plantarum
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Carl Linnaeus Species Plantarum
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the ultimate mechanical or artificial system
