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
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0674021835
ISBN 13: 9780674021839
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Dominique Visset
Condition: New

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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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Guillaume Lecointre is Professor and Research Scientist at the Mus�um National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris.

Herv� Le Guyader is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the Universit� Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Universit� Paris 6).

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