Naturalist · 1707 – 1778
Carl Linnaeus
Little-Known Facts
- He gave humans their scientific name, Homo sapiens.
- He sent students he called his 'apostles' around the world to collect specimens.
Myths & Misconceptions
Did Linnaeus believe species could change?
He largely saw species as fixed; it was later naturalists like Darwin who showed that the orderly groups Linnaeus named are connected by evolution.