The eighteenth-century naturalist Carolus Linnaeus is known for developing ____.

A) the theory of natural selection
B) a system for naming and classifying organisms
C) the biological species concept
D) the first microscope
E) the scientific method

Carolus Linnaeus

A Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist in the 18th century, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature.

Natural Selection

The mechanism through which better-suited organisms to their surroundings are more likely to survive and yield a higher number of progeny.

Scientific Method

Making, testing, and evaluating hypotheses about the natural world.