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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... newfound monkey wasn't the only species scientists described for the first time in 2005. They also announced the discovery of a new rodent in Laos, two new lemurs in Madagascar, and a new catlike animal in Borneo. The list goes on and ...
... newfound 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 ...
... newfound species, we'll need to keep reworking our ideas about the relationships among living things. But that's no reason to stop trying to organize the natural world. Like the earliest humans, we too have a deep desire to know and ...
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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 |