Who devised a system for classifying living things?

The system for classifying living things was devised by Carl Linnaeus, an 18th-century Swedish botanist. He introduced the binomial nomenclature system, which assigns each species a two-part Latin name consisting of the genus and species. This hierarchical classification system laid the groundwork for modern taxonomy, organizing living organisms into categories such as kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. Linnaeus's work has had a lasting impact on biological classification and naming conventions.