Ταξινομία του Λινναίου: Διαφορά μεταξύ των αναθεωρήσεων

A strength of Linnaean taxonomy is that it can be used to develop a simple and practical system for organizing the different kinds of living [[organism]]s. The most important aspect of this is the general use of [[binomialδιώνυμη nomenclatureονοματολογία]], the combination of a genus name and a specific epithet ('sapiens', in the example above), to uniquely identify each species of organism. In the example, humankind is uniquely identified by the binomial ''Homo sapiens.'' No other species of animal can have this binomial. In this way, every species is given a unique and stable name (compared with common names that are often neither unique nor consistent from place to place and language to language). This uniqueness and stability are, of course, a result of the acceptance by working systematists (biologists specializing in taxonomy), not merely of the binomial nomenclature in itself, but of much more complex codes of rules and procedures governing the use of these names.