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 [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
Description
560 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

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    Harvard University Press reference library [More in this series]
    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.
    Notes
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 0674021835
    • 9780674021839
    LCCN
    2006047736
    OCLC
    69680200
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