King
Phillip
chases
only
funny
Girl
Scouts. That's the
mneumonic that I was taught to remember the levels developed by Carl von
Linné, in the mid 1700's, for the clasification of living things. Now I find out that Kingdom has been supplanted by Domain as the top tier for
taxonomy. Since plants and animals are not the only items that make up "
life", I suppose that a new
classification had to be made up to accommodate the other things that make up living creatures.
Thus, a
person's full taxonomic classification is :
Eukarya Metazoa Chordata Mammalia Primata Hominidae
Homo sapiens sapiens.
( Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, Sub-species )
It now makes more sense that Dumb King Phillip chases only funny Girl Scouts.
