Carl Linnaeus:

Nature does not make any leaps. (Natura non facit saltus)

— Carl Linnaeus Early Modern

Biological taxonomy

A fundamental principle of his natural philosophy, suggesting gradualism in nature, from 'Philosophia Botanica' (1751).

1751

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