Tom Cavalier-Smith
biologist
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classification of living things
- In bacteria: Taxonomic rankings
…and in 1998 British zoologist Thomas Cavalier-Smith presented yet another classification scheme, the six-kingdom system, which contained kingdom Bacteria with two subdivisions, Eubacteria and Archaebacteria. In 2015 Cavalier-Smith and others revised the system to include seven kingdoms, whereby kingdom Bacteria was split into two separate kingdoms—Bacteria (containing the eubacteria) and…
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