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Book review of: Marc Ereshefsky. The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

A book review of a book criticizing the famous classification system developed by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707â 1778), which has been used and adapted by biologists over a period of almost 250 years.
The review considers theoretical issues in classification and the importance of the book for the field of Knowledge Organization.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/106326
Date11 1900
CreatorsHjørland, Birger
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeJournal Article (Paginated)

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