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Tahir Yusufaly 3-15-03 Biology - 1 History of Taxonomy Taxonomy has a long history, spanning the course of over 2,000 years. It has grown and developed into one of the major branches of biology. Today, it is a universal methodology of grouping organisms according to their characteristics and their evolutionary history. (Source: Modern Biology 337) One of the oldest known systems of classification is that of Aristotle, who lived around 300 B.C. Dichotomies, or polar opposites, were what Aristotle based his division of the complexity of life upon. He divided organisms into two primary groups: animals and plants. Then, he applied his dichotomy-based classification to these two groups. For instance, Aristotle divided animals into ones whose bodies contained blood and those whose bodies did not (as an extra note of interest, the division between vertebrates and invertebrates roughly corresponds to this classification). Aristotle also did a lot of work on plants, but unfortunately, most of...

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