Classification of Life, 2nd EditionTwenty-First Century Books, 1 янв. 2013 г. - Всего страниц: 78 How are polar bears related to pandas? For thousands of years, philosophers and scientists have tried to organize and understand, or classify, the relationships among Earth's animals and plants. Early classification systems were cumbersome and inconsistent. In the late 1720s, Carl Linnaeus began developing a classification system to describe relationships among all living things, including animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria. This organization, called the tree of life, is still the basis of the classification system used by scientists today. |
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... organize the natural world. Like the earliest humans, we too have a deep desire to know and understand the creatures that share our planet. chapter 1 early efforTs To ClassIfy organIsMs Aristotle was one 8 Classification of Life.
Melissa Stewart. chapter. 1. early. efforTs. To. ClassIfy. organIsMs. Aristotle was one of the first people to classify living things. He lived in Greece about 2,300 years ago. Aristotle divided all animals into two main categories: animals ...
... Aristotle's great works. Historians think Aristotle wrote about plants too, but no copies of his works on plants exist to prove it. Luckily, his student Theophrastus kept track of Aristotle's plant classification ideas. In History of ...
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Classification Meets Evolution | 26 |
Adding New Kingdoms | 34 |
The Birth Of Cladistics | 40 |
Kingdoms Or Domains? | 49 |
Glossary | 62 |
Biographies | 66 |
Source Notes | 71 |
Selected Bibliography | 72 |
Further ReadingWebsites | 74 |
Index | 76 |
Photo Acknowledgments | 78 |
Back Cover | 80 |
Timeline | 64 |