The tree of life : a phylogenetic classification / Guillaume Lecointre, Hervé Le Guyader ; illustrated by Dominique Visset ; translated by Karen McCoy.
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 there different individual characteristics. Phylogeny, therefore, by showing common ancestry, outlines a tree of evolutionary rela...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Life
- Eubacteria
- Archaea
- Eukaryotes
- Chlorobionta
- Embryophyta
- Metazoa
- Protostomia
- Mollusca
- Euarthropoda
- Deuterostomia
- Sarcopterygii
- Mammalia
- Primates
- Actinopterygii.