Binomial nomenclature, the genus-species system of naming all living things, is older than the United States and hasn’t changed a whole lot since Carl Linneaus invented it back in the 1750s. And it’s ...

“I’m trying to imagine what it would be like going through life not knowing the names of the plants and animals around you,” writes Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer in “Braiding Sweetgrass.” “I think it would ...