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  1. Linnaeus doesn’t address how the medulla– cortex hypothesis would work in monoecious
    and dioecious plants with unisexual flowers.

  2. Linnaeus also named the class of animals to which humans belong as the Mammalia, after
    the female breast, perhaps influenced by the important symbolic association between suckling
    and nature in religion and art; see Schiebinger, Nature’s Body.

  3. Linnaeus seemed to have believed that such crosses between orders were possible based on
    the mistaken impression that his distinguished colleague, the French naturalist Réaumur, had
    reported a successful cross between a rabbit and a hen. In reality, Réaumur had only reported a
    “barnyard romance” he had once observed, joking that: “It was the general wish, as well as my
    own, that it might have procured us chickens covered with hair, or rabbits clothed with feath-
    ers.” Lindroth, S.  (1983), The two faces of Linnaeus, in T.  Frängsmyr, ed., Linnaeus. Cartron,
    L. et al. (2007), Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500– 1870.
    MIT Press.

  4. Gustafsson, Linnaeus’ Peloria.

  5. Rudall P.  J., and R.  M. Bateman (2003), Evolutionary change in flowers and inflores-
    cences: evidence from naturally occurring terata. Trends in Plant Science 876– 882.

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