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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... creature fit in? While observing the monkey from a distance, Jones and Davenport noticed that it was a lot like the mangabey monkeys living nearby. It looked similar and behaved similarly. It lived in the same mountain forests and ate ...
... creatures that weren't studied much in the past. But once in a while, scientists reclassify well-known animals, such as birds, mice, and monkeys. For as long as humans have lived on Earth, we've wanted to understand the natural world ...
... what it ate, and how it repro- duced. Once he understood a creature well, he compared it to other animals he'd studied. Before deciding how to classify sea nettles, a kind of 9 Chapter 1: Early Efforts To Classify Organisms.
... creatures at the bottoms of ponds, they collected the wigglers and used them as bait. They had no idea these little larvae would grow into mosquitoes. They didn't know that the squirming, legless maggots they sometimes found on their ...
... creatures should be considered members of the same species only if they can mate and produce healthy offspring. For example, a Yorkshire terrier and a German shepherd look quite different. But scientists classify them both as members 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 |