👉 Linnaeanism is a scientific and cultural concept that refers to the idea of distinguishing between species based on their natural characteristics, rather than their domestication history. It emerged in the 18th century as an attempt by naturalists to identify and classify living organisms into distinct groups or families. Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist who developed the Linnaean system, which he used to classify plants into six classes (family, order, genus, species, subspecies, and sub