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    • A young Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hugging a tree.
    Rights: Peter Lakomy, licenced through 123RF Limited Published 14 April 2009, Updated 21 March 2019 Size: 410 KB Referencing Hub media

    Two names at the genus and species level are generally sufficient to differentiate from one organism to the next, for example, Pongo pygmaeus.

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      Classification system

      In the 18th century, Carl Linnaeus published a system for classifying living things, which has been developed into the modern classification system. People have always given names to things that ...

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