scientific classification
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Nakai spent time studying the Dudleya genus, succulents native to the West Coast, and contributed to its taxonomy, or scientific classification.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025
In a career spanning almost 60 years, Janaki studied a wide range of flowering plants and reworked the scientific classification of several families of plants.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2022
“Our weather warning systems were designed to detect and warn for singular threats — they’re biased toward a more siloed and scientific classification of threats,” Henderson wrote in an email.
From Washington Post • May 4, 2022
W. John Koolage, a professor of philosophy at Eastern Michigan University, is writing an introduction that explores the positioning of humans and animals in scientific classification systems.
From Scientific American • Feb. 21, 2020
For some kinds of antiquities, for those which cannot be left in their own places, and which need special scientific classification, such collections are necessary.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
