Question

write a report on the history of classification

Answer 1

Answer:

History of classification

1. Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, classified animals based on whether they live on land, in water or in the air.

2. Charles Darwin put forward the idea of evolution in 1859, in his book, The Origin of Species.

3. Ernst Haeckel, Robert Whittaker and Carl Woese have tried to classify living organisms into broad categories, called kingdoms.

4. Carolus Linnaeus classified all the living organisms into two kingdoms namely, Plantae and Animalia.

5. Robert Whittaker, in 1969 proposed Five kingdom classification of living organisms