"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote in message
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Whenever a person starts talking about taxonomy as starting with Linnaeus
I
am assuming there are so many screws loose in the brain that anything else
said will be pretty close to madness and I only glance through the rest.
I had not really noticed that this one was even crazier that at first
apparent.

As the large majority of people believe that the 1758 version of Systema
Naturae *was* the beginning of modern taxonomy, you must miss out on a lot
of reading? Give Linnaeus his due - despite the flaws, his system has served
us pretty well and should not be rudely dismissed.

I am interested, though, in where you would put the staring point?

Colin