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Michel Adanson

Naturalist

Died when: 79 years 118 days (951 months)
Star Sign: Aries

 

Michel Adanson

Michel Adanson (7 April 1727 – 3 August 1806) was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna.

He proposed a "natural system" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwarded by Linnaeus.


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