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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... botanist (a scientist who studies plants) was growing in France. In 1683 he became the director of Jardin des Plantes, a worldfamous botanical garden in Paris. One of Tournefort's main duties was to collect plants throughout Europe ...
... botanist. While other children played games, Carl explored the countryside and collected plants. A doctor who taught ... botanists. Linnaeus soon made some important friends. One of them was a botany professor named Olof Rudbeck ...
... botanists thought about classifying living things. The 1735 edition provided clear, easy rules for dividing nature into three kingdoms: plants, animals, and minerals. Linnaeus also sorted the members of each kingdom into smaller ...
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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 |