Today, we’re going to discuss classification. We’re going to briefly skim over how people historically used to organise life, before the establishment of the prokaryote-eukaryote division which would stay in place until an American scientist called Carl Woese rocked the taxonomic boat…
Sources for this episode: 1) Craine, A. G., Encyclopaedia Britannica (2020), Carl Woese (online) [Accessed 10/04/2021]. 2) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Taxonomy (online) [Accessed 10/04/2021]. 3) Some of the discussion is based on my previous education on the topic, as I completed a Massive Open Online Course ‘Emergence of Life’ covering this topic in 2018.