Starting from early childhood, all of us are taught about simple classifications within nature. Snoopy is a beagle. A beagle is a dog. A dog is a mammal. And a mammal is an animal. Seems simple. But as guest presenter Grant Munroe will show, the process of naming and sorting individual organisms within a systemic hierarchy — the practice of taxonomy — has an ancient, fascinating, and often controversial history. From folk taxonomies to the groundbreaking work of Carl Linnaeus, Darwin’s evolutionary theory to contemporary genetic testing, this lecture will take guests on a journey over hundreds of years of discovery. A must for anyone interested in learning about the naming of nature, including common names, Latin binomials, and more.