What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Man Who Organized Nature’ by Gunnar Broberg

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Updated 10 July 2023
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Man Who Organized Nature’ by Gunnar Broberg

Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalized and popularized the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants and animals.

Linnaeus himself classified thousands of species; the simple and immediately recognizable abbreviation “L” is used to mark classifications originally made by Linnaeus.

This biography, by the leading authority on Linnaeus, offers a vivid portrait of Linnaeus’s life and work.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Prehistoric Textiles’ by E.J.W.Barber

Updated 26 January 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Prehistoric Textiles’ by E.J.W.Barber

This pioneering work revises our notions of the origins and early development of textiles in Europe and the Near East.

Using innovative linguistic techniques, along with methods from paleobiology and other fields, it shows that spinning and pattern weaving began far earlier than has been supposed.

“Prehistoric Textiles” made an unsurpassed leap in the social and cultural understanding of textiles in humankind’s early history.