# The tenth edition of Systema Naturae applies binomials to animals and names Homo sapiens

Date: 1758

## The fact

In 1758 [Carl Linnaeus](/people/carl-linnaeus) issued the tenth edition of Systema Naturae, volume one, applying consistent binomials to animals and naming the human species Homo sapiens inside Mammalia and Primates. Later ICZN starting-point rules are not his lifetime act. Placing humans among primates is the improving naturalism stored here. The moralised varieties on the same pages are a worsening split path, not denied and not copied as a second success.

## Context

1735 had already put humans among animals in a short table. 1758 is the binomial, mammalian, primate form. Stearn’s later lectotype jokes are reception, not 1758. Printers and collectors shared the volume. Sharing does not erase the author. Do not treat a 1895 zoological congress as this edition.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. 1758 binomial zoology is not the racial table’s welfare sign. Mixed effects of The tenth edition of Systema Naturae applies binomials to animals and names Homo sapiens are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

BHL’s tenth-edition scan at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277 is a public copy of the 1758 animal volume. Linnean Society at https://www.linnean.org/research-collections/on-display/homo-sapiens-classifying-the-human-animal independently dates Homo sapiens in that edition.

Official or archival record: Systema Naturae, 10th edition — Biodiversity Heritage Library (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277; Biodiversity Heritage Library).

## Significance

Education and naturalism path of mid weight. High confidence on 1758. Racial ranks remain the split row.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Systema Naturae 10th ed., 1758, named Homo sapiens among animals with binomials. Not established: that Linnaeus wrote ICZN, or that 1758 ranks are biologically valid. Contribution is recorded as He authored the 1758 animal volume. Printers in Stockholm issued it; correspondents sent animals. The impact note is Binomial zoology and Homo sapiens as an animal species are a naturalism-and-access path, split from the same edition’s racial ranks. The dated heading stays The tenth edition of Systema Naturae applies binomials to animals and names Homo sapiens on 1758-01-01, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Printers, unnamed clerks, and later editors may appear in the same file without becoming this instrument. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.

Shared responsibility is part of The tenth edition of Systema Naturae applies binomials to animals and names Homo sapiens. Naming Carl Linnaeus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1758-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Carl Linnaeus: https://factrail.ai/people/carl-linnaeus

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277
- https://www.linnean.org/research-collections/on-display/homo-sapiens-classifying-the-human-animal

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-systema-10-1758