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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... Evolution Chapter 4 Adding New Kingdoms Chapter 5 The Birth of Cladistics Chapter 6 Kingdoms or Domains? Glossary Timeline Biographies Source Notes Selected Bibliography Further Reading Websites Index 4 9 17 26 34 40 49 62 64 66 71 72 ...
... evolved. Knowing an organism's proper place in the tree of life helps us understand how the world's cast of organisms has changed over time. kIngdoMs, Classes, and More In the early 1730s, Linnaeus visited. 18 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 |