The Diversity and Unification of the Engineered World

Inventions can be classified, like animals and plants, into kingdoms, phyla, and species

Illustration: Chad Hagen

Our count of living species remains incomplete. In the 250-plus years since Carl Linnaeus set up the modern taxonomic system, we have classified about 1.25 million species, about three-quarters of them animals

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