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ISBN10: 0198604262, ISBN13: 9780198604266, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover This is an account and reference source of all creatures, alive and extinct. Using classification to show all the principal groups to which living creatures belong, this takes us into some of the most intriguing and intricate areas of biological philosophy and technique. It is useful for everyone who is interested in the diversity of living things.
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ISBN10: 0198604262, ISBN13: 9780198604266, [publisher: OUP Oxford] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Variety of Life can be read at many levels. Not least it is an extraordinary inventory - an illustrated summary of all the Earthly creatures that have ever lived. Whatever living thing you come across, from E coli to an oak tree or an elephant, The Variety of Life will show you what kind of creature it is, and how it relates to all others. Yet there are far too many creatures to present merely as a catalogue. The list of species alreadydescribed is vast enough - nearly two million - but there could in reality be as many as 30 million different animals, plants, fungi and protists - and perhaps another 400 million different bacteria and archaea. In the 4,000 million years or so since life first began on Earth, there could have been several thousandbillion different species. The only way to keep track of so many is to classify - placing similar creatures into categories, which nest within larger categories, and so on. As the centuries have passed, so it has become clear that the different groups are far more diverse than had ever been appreciated. Thus Linneus in the 18th century placed all living things in just two kingdoms, Animals and Plants. By the 1950s this had become five kingdoms - with fungi, protists, and bacteria hived offinto their own separate groups. But leading biologists today acknowledge three vastly different ...
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ISBN10: 0198604262, ISBN13: 9780198604266, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover 700 pages. 9.13x6.14x1.50 inches. In Stock.
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Oxford University Press, Date: 2002. Paperback. New. 700 pages. 9.13x6.14x1.50 inches. 2002. Oxford University Press ISBN 0198604262 9780198604266 [GB]

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