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The tree of life : a phylogenetic classification / Guillaume Lecointre, Hervé Le Guyader ; illustrations by Dominique Visset ; translated by Karen McCoy.
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Lecointre, Guillaume
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Classification phylogénétique du vivant.
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Book
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English
Published/Created
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
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560 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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QH83 .L42513 2006
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Biology
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Classification
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Cladistic analysis
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Life sciences
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Classification
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Le Guyader, Hervé
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Classification
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Harvard University Press reference library
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Summary note
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. Each branch of the tree is a group that includes the hypothetical ancestor and all its descendants. The basis for classification is the evolutionary adaptations that the unique ancestor passed to its modern-day descendants.
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Translated from the French.
"First published as Classification phylogénétique du vivant, 3rd ed., Éditions Belin, Paris, c2006"--T.p. verso.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 537) and indexes.
Language note
Translated from the French.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Life
Eubacteria
Archaea
Eukaryotes
Chlorobionta
Embryophyta
Metazoa
Protostomia
Mollusca
Euarthropoda
Deuterostomia
Sarcopterygii
Mammalia
Primates
Actinopterygii
Appendixes
Sequenced genomes
Glossary.
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ISBN
0674021835
9780674021839
LCCN
2006047736
OCLC
69680200
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