Herbert Faulkner Copeland (May 21, 1902 – October 15, 1968) was an American

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who contributed to the theory of biological kingdoms. He grouped unicellular organisms into 2 large kingdoms: the Monera kingdom and the

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kingdom. In 1966, he included

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and one of the most primitive

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, called

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, under Monera kingdom. His father was

Edwin Copeland Edwin Bingham Copeland (September 30, 1873 – March 16, 1964) was an American botanist and agriculturist. He is known for founding the University of the Philippines College of Agriculture at Los Baños, Laguna and for being one of the America's ...

who was also the founder of the College of Agriculture at the

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and a leading pteridologist.

Bibliography

* "The kingdoms of organisms", ''Quarterly review of biology'' v.13, p. 383-420, 1938. * ''The classification of lower organisms'', Palo Alto, Calif., Pacific Books, 1956.

References

1902 births 1968 deaths 20th-century American botanists Scientists from Chicago {{US-biologist-stub