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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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The tree of life : a phylogenetic classification / Guillaume Lecointre, Hervé Le Guyader ; illustrations by Dominique Visset ; translated by Karen McCoy.
Author
Lecointre, Guillaume.
Publication
Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.

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Le Guyader, Hervé
Description
560 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
Summary
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.
Uniform Title
Classification phylogénétique du vivant. English
Alternative Title
Classification phylogénétique du vivant.
Subject
  • Biology > Classification
  • Cladistic analysis
Genre/Form
Classification
Note
  • "First published as Classification phylogénétique du vivant, 3rd ed., Éditions Belin, Paris, c2006"--T.p. verso.
  • Booklet entitled "The Tree of life: A phylogenetic classification" (15 leaves) attached to the back cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 537) and indexes.
Contents
Preface -- Introduction -- Life -- Eubacteria -- Archaea -- Eukaryotes -- Chlorobionta -- Embryophyta -- Metazoa -- Protostomia -- Mollusca -- Euarthropoda -- Deuterostomia -- Sarcopterygii -- Mammalia -- Primates -- Actinopterygii -- Appendixes -- Sequenced genomes -- Glossary.
ISBN
  • 9780674021839 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0674021835
LCCN
^^2006047736
OCLC
69680200
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library