michel adanson

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born April 7, 1727, Aix-en-Provence, France died Aug. 3, 1806, Paris French botanist. He studied theology, classics, and philosophy in Paris before traveling to Senegal, where he lived several years. He returned with a large collection of plant specimens, now in the National Museum of Natural History. In Families of Plants (1763), he described his classification system; it was opposed by Carolus Linnaeus, whose system eventually prevailed. He was the first to classify mollusks. He also studied electricity in torpedo fish and the effects of electrical current on regenerating frog legs and heads. He is now known mainly for introducing the use of statistical methods in botanical studies
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Bitkiler için doğal bir sınıflandırma sistemi geliştiren Fransız botanikçi(1727-1806)
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