16 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
"Natural" Classification of Species as Evidence for Evolu...
Actually, the nested arrangement of life was recognized long before
Darwin. Starting with the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in , biologists
began classifying animals and plants, discovering that they consistently
fell into what was called a “natural” classification. Strikingly,
different biologists came up with nearly identical groupings. This means
that these groupings are not subjective artifacts of a human need to
classify, but that they tell us something real and fundamen...Taxonomists working independently naturally "nest" species in the same groups.