Certain authors hypothesize that the green eukaryotes and the chromoalveolates are sister groups. • Chloroplast: the green eukaryotes bring together the glaucophyta, the rhodobionta, and the chlorobionta principally on the characteristics of ...
The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification (Harvard University Press Reference Library) available on November 06 2014 from Amazon for 33.10
ISBN bar code 9780674021839 ξ1 registered May 26 2012
ISBN bar code 9780674021839 ξ2 registered November 06 2014
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Manufacturered by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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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.,
^Guillaume LecointreThe Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification (Harvard University Press Reference Library), Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Amazon. ISBN 9780674021839 (revised Nov 2014)
This book is truly a work of art in layout, design and presentation of line drawings and scientific content. It is one of the best scientific presentations I have seen and anyone remotely interested in this subject needs to check this excellent reference.
"The Tree of Life" is a thorough modern phylogenetic classification of life on this planet. This book is great for anyone interested in how different organisms are really related, from single-celled organisms up to humans and our close relatives. Anyone who has ever thought it strange that we should group turtles, crocodilians and dinosaurs together as "reptiles", but exclude birds (and mammals), will likely be interested in this book. The book is comprehensive, detailed, and well illustrated, and remarkabl..
WOW! This is an excellent and superbly organized presentation of the phylogenetic relationships of 'all' organisms. Cross-referencing is simple with common name and Latin name indices. Shading, drawings and color are used effectively to highlight relationships. An inserted summary is so useful that it is worth the price alone. No biologist (cellular, organismic or whatever) should be without this book --- and it is amazingly inexpensive.
