The Variety Of Life (Broché)

Name: The Variety Of Life
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Author: Colin Tudge
ISBN: 9780198604266

Colin Tudge

Oxford University Press
Paru le : 15/03/2002

The Variety of Life introduces all the principal groups of living matures that are now on Earth or are believed to have existed in the past. This magnificently... > Lire la suite

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The Variety of Life introduces all the principal groups of living matures that are now on Earth or are believed to have existed in the past. This magnificently illustrated, highly readable, and authoritative reference source reveals the relationships between all earthly creatures and how biologists have arrived at their present understanding of life's diversity. This is a fascinating and invaluable guide for everyone who is interested in living things.

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THE CRAFT AND SCIENCE OF CLASSIFICATION
- 'So many goodly creatures'
- Classification and the search for order
- The natural order : Darwin's dream and Hennig's solution
- Data
- Clades, grades, and the naming of parts : a plea for Neolinnaean Impressionism
A SURVEY OF ALL LIVING CREATURES
- From two kingdoms to three domains
- The domains of the prokaryotes
- The realm of the nucleus
- Mushrooms, moulds, and lichens ; rusts, smut, and rot
- The animals
- Anemones, corals, jellyfish, and sea pens
- Clams and cockles, mails and slugs, octopuses and squids
- Animals with jointed legs
- Lobsters, crabs, shrimps, barnacles, and many more besides
- The insects
- Spiders, scorpions, mites, eurypterids, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders
- Starfish and brittle stars, sea urchins and sand dollars, sea lilies, sea daisies, and sea cucumbers
- Sea squirts, lancelets, and vertebrates
- Sharks, rays, and chimaeras
- The ray-finned fish
- Lobefins and tetrapods
- The reptiles
- The mammals
- Lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes
- Human beings and our immediate relatives
- The birds
- The modern birds
- The plants
- The flowering plants
- Daisies, artichockes, thistles, and lettuce