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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... naturalists gave plants and animals long, complicated names that described the organisms' most important features. Bauhin's names were much simpler. He usually used just two words. Unfortunately, the world wasn't ready for such a big ...
... naturalists around the world use Latin words to name living things. In Ray's time, every educated person could read Latin. Naturalists who lived in different countries and spoke different languages could communicate about organisms more ...
... naturalists solve this problem? By introducing two different Latin names. The modern scientific name for the European robin is Erithacus rubecula, while the scientific name for the American robin is Turdus migratorius. Sometimes a ...
... naturalists before them used just one or two key traits to sort living things into groups. Ray thought it was ... naturalist to use the word. John Ray sat for this portrait in about 1700. Prokaryotes, such as bacteria, have simple ...
Melissa Stewart. John Ray was the first naturalist to use the word species to refer to the basic unit of classification. Species comes from a Latin word that means “appearance,” “sort,” or “kind.” During Ray's time, naturalists always ...
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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 |