The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification. Illustrated by Dominique Visset. Translated by Karen McCoy.

Lecointre, Guillaume / Hervé Le Guyader.

ISBN 10: 0674021835 / ISBN 13: 9780674021839

Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts / London, England, 2006

About this Item

Original cloth, with dust-jacket. 560 pp., many ills, 15 plates in rear; 28.5x19 cm. Text in English. - Very good/ fine. See picture This book presents a comprehensive overview of the phylogenetic classification of living organisms, illustrating the evolutionary relationships among various life forms. It serves as a valuable resource for understanding modern biological classification systems. 1660g.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification. Illustrated by Dominique Visset. Translated by Karen McCoy.
• Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts / London, England
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674021835
• ISBN 13: 9780674021839
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Dominique Visset
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 1660 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biologie

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Synopsis

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.,

About the Authors

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

Hervé Le Guyader is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Université Paris 6).