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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... than twenty years. “I was gobsmacked,” Jones later told reporters. At around the same time, just 350 miles (563 kilometers) away, a scientist named Tim Davenport spotted another group of 4 Introduction: Discovering A New Monkey.
... new monkey to the world. Their report appeared in the journal Science on May 20, 2005. This newfound monkey wasn't the only species scientists described for the first time in 2005. They also announced the discovery of a new rodent in Laos, ...
... classify the newfound monkey as a mangabey. But because it had a unique call and some unique physical traits (spiked hair, long whiskers, and brown fur), the scientists ... new monkey wasn't a mangabey. But it wasn't a baboon either. Because ...
... scientists often have trouble deciding how organisms are related. As. Scientists discovered that the kipunji was a new genus of monkey after testing its DNA in 2006. John Ray sat for this portrait in about 1700. Introduction 7.
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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 |