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The document summarizes the history of taxonomic classification from ancient times to the present. Aristotle separated the animal kingdom from the plant kingdom and divided animals according to their habitat. Theophrastus introduced the idea of classifying based on structural similarity. Carl von Linné founded modern taxonomy by classifying into kingdoms, genera, and species. Subsequently, Robert H. Whittaker proposed five kingdoms and Carl Woese discovered a new domain based on RNA.
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