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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... plants. Aristotle sorted about five hundred different organisms into these groups. Before Aristotle classified an animal, he observed its body structures closely. He also considered its behavior. He knew where it lived, what it ate, and ...
... Animals and History of Animals, two of Aristotle's great works. Historians think Aristotle wrote about plants too, but no copies of his works on plants exist to prove it. Luckily, his student Theophrastus kept track of Aristotle's plant ...
... plants. At that time, doctors and other healers treated most illnesses with ... plant species—almost one thousand more than Theophrastus does. He also ... animals long, complicated names that described the organisms' most important ...
Melissa Stewart. naming system was much easier to use, naturalists continued to name plants ... plants. He collected specimens from all over Europe. During his lifetime ... animals. He pub- lished his most important works in the late 1600s and ...
... Species comes from a Latin word that means “appearance,” “sort,” or “kind.” During Ray's time, naturalists always used physical appearance to classify plants and animals. What. Is. a. Species? When modern scientists classify an animal ...
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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 |