> I don't know when it changed between the 1st and 10th editions If we're talking about Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, quite a bit: Binomial nomenclature wasn't i

> I don't know when it changed between the 1st and 10th editions If we're talking about Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, quite a bit: Binomial nomenclature wasn't included until the 10th edition, for example. And from an prominent 2015 paper [0]: "In modern-day classifications, the starting point for botanical names is Linnaeus' Species Plantarum and for zoological names it is the tenth edition of the Systema Naturae." [0] Michael A. Ruggiero, Dennis P. Gordon, et al. A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PloS One. (April 2015) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0119248 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... (see also this correction: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0130114 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... )