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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... birds, mice, and monkeys. For as long as humans have lived on Earth, we've wanted to understand the natural world. Giving organisms names and sorting them into groups helps us do that. People started developing systems for classifying ...
... birds, (4) reptiles and amphibians, (5) fish, (6) octopuses and squid, (7) shellfish, (8) insects and spiders, (9) jellyfish, (10) sponges, and (11) plants. Aristotle sorted about five hundred different organisms into these groups ...
... birds in his free time. In 1544 Turner published a book discussing Aristotle's work on birds. The book also describes the birds Turner observed in England. It was the first printed book devoted entirely to naming and describing birds ...
Melissa Stewart. compares the skeletons of many different birds. He also compares bird bones to human bones. Belon classifies birds based on their body parts and their habitats (where they live). His groups include waterfowl, wading birds, ...
... the same language didn't always agree on common names. For example, the English used the name robin to describe a different bird species than the Colonial Americans described when they used robin. 12 Classification of Life.
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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 |