Did Carl Linnaeus incorporate evolutionary thinking in the d

Did Carl Linnaeus incorporate evolutionary thinking in the development of his Systema Naturae?

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No Carl Linnaeus did not incorporated evolutionary thinking in the development of his Systema Naturae.

He published this book in 1735

In this book Linnaeus presented an outline of the sexual system of classification of plant kingdom.

He classified plant kingdom into 24 classes on the basis of presence and absence of stamens and their number, without taking into account any evolution relationship.

Evolutionary thinking was incorporated into classifications after the publication of Darwin\'s Origin of Species (1859)