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'''Folk taxonomies''' are systems of categorization created by non-scientists in order to organize, name, and understand the natural world. Folk taxonomies frequently diverge on some points from the phylogeny established by the scientific study of [[taxonomy]] but they also tend to align with scientific classifications on other points: sometimes folk taxonomies lump together many biological species under a single name, sometimes there is one-to-one correspondence, and sometimes folk taxonomies differentiate where scientific taxonomies do not.<ref> Brent Berlin, Dennis E. Breedlove, Peter H. Raven. (1966). Folk Taxonomies and Biological Classification. ''Science'' 154(3746): 273-275.</ref> | '''Folk taxonomies''' are systems of categorization created by non-scientists in order to organize, name, and understand the natural world. Folk taxonomies frequently diverge on some points from the phylogeny established by the scientific study of [[taxonomy]] but they also tend to align with scientific classifications on other points: sometimes folk taxonomies lump together many biological species under a single name, sometimes there is one-to-one correspondence, and sometimes folk taxonomies differentiate where scientific taxonomies do not.<ref> Brent Berlin, Dennis E. Breedlove, Peter H. Raven. (1966). Folk Taxonomies and Biological Classification. ''Science'' 154(3746): 273-275.</ref> Differentiation between types in folk taxonomies largely depends on the [[culture|cultural]] significance and practical utility of the species constituting each group and may be determined by attributes that are not immediately obvious to outsiders. | ||
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Revision as of 16:28, 11 August 2009
Folk taxonomies are systems of categorization created by non-scientists in order to organize, name, and understand the natural world. Folk taxonomies frequently diverge on some points from the phylogeny established by the scientific study of taxonomy but they also tend to align with scientific classifications on other points: sometimes folk taxonomies lump together many biological species under a single name, sometimes there is one-to-one correspondence, and sometimes folk taxonomies differentiate where scientific taxonomies do not.[1] Differentiation between types in folk taxonomies largely depends on the cultural significance and practical utility of the species constituting each group and may be determined by attributes that are not immediately obvious to outsiders.
References
- ↑ Brent Berlin, Dennis E. Breedlove, Peter H. Raven. (1966). Folk Taxonomies and Biological Classification. Science 154(3746): 273-275.