The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification
Language: English
Published by Harvard University Press, 2007
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Modern classification, based on phylogeny, no longer places humans at the centre of nature. By showing common ancestry, it outlines a tree of evolutionary relationships from which one can retrace the history of life. This book diagrams the tree of life according to various methods of classification, to show how life forms arose and developed. Illustrator(s): Visset, Dominique. Translator(s): McCoy, Karen. Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library. Num Pages: 560 pages, 1500 line drawings. BIC Classification: PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 287 x 198 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1660. . 2007. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification
- Author
- Guillaume Lecointre
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0674021835
- ISBN 13
- 9780674021839
- Illustrator
- Dominique Visset
Did you know that you are more closely related to a mushroom than to a daisy? That crocodiles are closer to birds than to lizards? That dinosaurs are still among us? That the terms "fish," "reptiles," and "invertebrates" do not indicate scientific groupings? All this is the result of major changes in classification, whose methods have been totally revisited over the last thirty years.
Modern classification, based on phylogeny, no longer places humans at the center of nature. Groups of organisms are no longer defined by their general appearance, but by their different individual characteristics. Phylogeny, therefore, by showing common ancestry, outlines a tree of evolutionary relationships from which one can retrace the history of life.
This book diagrams the tree of life according to the most recent methods of classification. By showing how life forms arose and developed and how they are related, The Tree of Life presents a key to the living world in all its dazzling variety.,
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About the Author
Hervé Le Guyader is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Université Paris 6).
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