animals and plants to minerals. The great chain of being (from Latin scala naturae 'ladder of being') is a concept derived from Plato, Aristotle (in his...

from minerals to plants and animals, and on up to man, forming the scala naturae or great chain of being. His system had eleven grades, arranged according...

complex organisms. However, this is an antiquated remnant of the obsolete scala naturae, and the term is generally considered to be unscientific. Botanists...

based on arranging the complete world in a single continuum, as per the scala naturae (the Natural Ladder). This, as well, was taken into consideration in...

the theory of evolution, nearly all classification was based on the scala naturae. The professionalization of botany in the 18th and 19th century marked...

second major argument is that of the Scala Naturae (scale of nature) versus the phylogenetic bush. The Scala Naturae, later also called the phylogenetic...

18th-century naturalists, a major concept of natural history was the scala naturae or Great Chain of Being, an arrangement of minerals, vegetables, more...

possibility in decisions affecting that animal". A common image is the scala naturae, the ladder of nature on which animals of different species occupy successively...

organisms in the course of development, and that ultimately reflects scala naturae (the great chain of being). von Baer believed that such linear development...

The Greek philosopher Plato (c. 428–c. 347 BC) placed humans on the scala naturae, which included all things, from inanimate objects at the bottom to...