Question

I saw the video on five kingdom classification and you said that Robert Whittaker started five kingdom classification but my textbook says it was started by Thomas Whittaker.

Answer 1

Robert Harding Whittaker (December 27, 1920 – October 20, 1980) was a distinguished American plant ecologist, active in the 1950s to the 1970s. He was the first to propose the five-kingdom taxonomic classification of the world's biota into the Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, and Monera in 1969.