Comments on: Book review – Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains: The History of High-Level Biological Classification

By: Book review – Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? How Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:54:23 +0000

[…] Vegetable, Mineral? After dealing with biographies of Linnaeus and Buffon, and then Ragan’s Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains, her book was just crying out to be read next. Given that those three were all published in 2023 […]

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By: Book review – Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:04:34 +0000

[…] just binomial nomenclature and a hierarchy of categorical ranks. My next review of Ragan’s Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains examines one example of what it struggles with: how to deal with other high-level groupings such as […]

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By: Book review – The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:02:46 +0000

[…] forcefully suggest themselves to me for review. With the publication in 2023 of Mark Ragan’s Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains and then, earlier this year, Jason Roberts’s Every Living Thing, the history of taxonomy put […]

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