Tree of Life - A Phylogenetic Classification

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Did you know that you are more closely related to a mushroom than to a daisy? That dinosaurs are still among us? That the terms “fish” and “invertebrates” do not indicate scientific groupings? All this is the result of major changes in classification. This book diagrams the tree of life according to the most recent methods of this system.

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• Authors: Herve Le Guyader, Herve Le Guyader, Hervé Le Guyader, Guillaume Lecointre, Guillaume Guyader Lecointre, Guillaume Le Guyader Lecointre, Lecointre Guillaume
• Assisted by: Dominique Visset (Illustration), Karen McCoy (Translation), McCoy Karen (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2007
• EAN: 9780674021839
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02183-9
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 197 mm x 292 mm x 44 mm
• Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library; Harvard University Press Refer; Harvard University Press Reference Library; Harvard University Press Reference Library (HUP)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution