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Binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming a species by combining the Latin words for the specimens genus and specific name. The Swedish botanist and physician Carolus Linnaeus was the first person to popularize this convention in the 1700s, attempting to provide everything in the world (plant, animal and mineral) a specific two part name. By 1758, he had already published the tenth edition of his book called Systema Naturae which classified over 4,400 species of animal and 7,700 species of plants. A family of Swiss-French botanists known as the Bauhins are also known to have used a similar naming convention 200 years prior to Linnaeus being born, but they lacked his devotion to the cause and could not popularize it in their day.

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