Assembling the Tree of Life - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195172345 ISBN 13: 9780195172348

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This edited volume is provides an authoritative synthesis of knowledge about the history of life. All the major groups of organisms are treated, by the leading workers in their fields. With sections on: The Importance of Knowing the Tree of Life; The Origin and Radiation of Life on Earth; The Relationships of Green Plants; The Relationships of Fungi; and The Relationships of Animals. This book should prove indispensable for evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, ecologists interested in biodiversity, and as a baseline sourcebook for organismic biologists, botanists, and microbiologists. An essential reference in this fundamental area.

About this title

About the Author:

Joel Cracraft is at American Museum of Natural History. Michael J. Donoghue is at Yale University.

Review:

"Assembling the Tree of Life presents a preliminary view of one of the grand enterprises of modern science, resolving the phylogeny of all life... This volume, the product of a 2002 symposium by the same name held at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York, seeks to blow away the mist and reveal the structure of the whole Tree and, in doing so, galvanize the systematics community toward unifying its goals." -- Science

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0195172345
• ISBN 13: 9780195172348
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 592
• Editor: Cracraft Joel, Donoghue Michael J.