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
But the submission itself can be of very different characters and these various types must give the deepest logical principles of scientific classification.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
