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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... science) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978–0–8225–6604–5 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) 1. Biology—Classification—Juvenile literature. I. Title. QH83.S764 2008 578.01'2—dc22 2006028533 Manufactured in the United ...
... scientists hadn't discovered a new kind, or species, of monkey in Africa in more 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 ...
... 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, two new lemurs in Madagascar, and a new catlike animal in ...
... scientists thought the monkey should belong to its own mangabey species. They named it the highland mangabey. A few ... Science published this amazing news on June 2, 2006. Davenport's experience with kipunjis shows that clas- sifying ...
... 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 |