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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Melissa Stewart. long arms and legs that are perfect for life in the trees. Its flexible fingers and toes can grasp food easily. It has a large brain and has forward-facing eyes for judging distances accurately. But humans have ...
... tree of life—a big, complex diagram that shows how all Earth's organisms are related to one another. As researchers keep identifying newfound species, we'll need to keep reworking our ideas about the relationships among living things ...
... trees, shrubs, and herbs. a. flood. of. new. Ideas. For more than one thousand years, Aristotle's and Theophrastus's books were the world's most important sources of information on animal and plant classification. One person who read and ...
... has 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 |