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The variety of life : A survey and a celebration of all the creatures that have ever lived / Colin Tudge.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.Description: xii, 684 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0198503113
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 578.012 21 TUD
LOC classification:
  • QH83 .T84 2000
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: PART I -- THE CRAFT AND SCIENCE OF -- CLASSIFICATION -- CHAPTER I -- 'So many goodly creatures' 3 -- CHAPTER 2 -- Classification and the search for order 17 -- CHAPTER 3 -- The natural order: Darwin's dream and Hennig's solution 33 -- CHAPTER 4 -- Data 63 -- CHAPTER 5 -- Clades, grades, and the naming of parts: a plea for -- Neolinnaean Impressionism s8 -- PART II -- A SURVEY OF ALL LIVING CREATURES -- How to use this book 92 -- 1 From two kingdoms to three domains 95 -- 2 The domains of the prokaryotes 107 -- BACTERIA AND ARCHAEA -- 3 The realm of the nucleus 127 -- DOMAIN EUCARYA -- 4 Mushrooms, moulds, and lichens; rusts, smut, and rot 159 -- KINGDOM FUNGI -- 5 The animals I8s -- KINGDOM ANIMALIA -- 6 Anemones, corals, jellyfish, and sea pens 211 -- PHYLUM CNIDARIA -- 7 Clams and cockles, snails and slugs, octopuses and squids 225 -- PHYLUM MOLLUSCA -- 8 Animals withjointed legs 247 -- PHYLUM ARTHROPODA -- 9 Lobsters, crabs, shrimps, barnacles, and many more besides 269 -- SUBPHYLUM CRUSTACEA* -- 10 The insects 287 -- SUBPHYLUM INSECTA -- 11 Spiders, scorpions, mites, -- eurypterids, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders 309 -- SUBPHYLUM CHELICERATA AND SUBPHYLUM PYCNOGONIDA -- 12 Starfish and brittle stars, -- sea urchins and sand dollars, sea lilies, sea daisies, and sea cucumbers 327 -- PHYLUM ECHINODERMATA -- 13 Sea squirts, lancelets, and vertebrates 339 -- PHYLUM CHORDATA -- 14 Sharks, rays, and chimaeras 355 -- CLASS CHONDRICHTHYES -- 15 The ray-finned fish 369 -- CLASS ACTINOPTERYGII -- 16 Lobefins andtetrapods 389 -- THE SARCOPTERYGII -- 17 The reptiles 407 -- CLASS REPTILIA* -- 18 The mammals 433 -- CLASS MAMMALIA -- 19 Lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes 461 -- ORDER PRIMATES -- 20 Human beings and our immediate relatives 489 -- FAMILY HOMINIDAE S.S. -- 21 The birds 515 -- CLASS AVES -- 22 The modern birds 529 -- SUBCLASS NEORNITHES -- 23 The plants 547 -- KINGDOM PLANTAE -- 24 The flowering plants 577 -- CLASS ANGIOSPERMAE -- 25 Daisies, artichokes, thistles, and lettuce 593 -- FAMILY COMPOSITAE (OR ASTERACEAE) -- PART III -- EPILOGUE -- Saving what is left 609 -- Sources andfurther reading 629 -- Geological timescale 645 -- General index 647 -- Index of organisms 655.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [629]-644).

Machine generated contents note: PART I -- THE CRAFT AND SCIENCE OF -- CLASSIFICATION -- CHAPTER I -- 'So many goodly creatures' 3 -- CHAPTER 2 -- Classification and the search for order 17 -- CHAPTER 3 -- The natural order: Darwin's dream and Hennig's solution 33 -- CHAPTER 4 -- Data 63 -- CHAPTER 5 -- Clades, grades, and the naming of parts: a plea for -- Neolinnaean Impressionism s8 -- PART II -- A SURVEY OF ALL LIVING CREATURES -- How to use this book 92 -- 1 From two kingdoms to three domains 95 -- 2 The domains of the prokaryotes 107 -- BACTERIA AND ARCHAEA -- 3 The realm of the nucleus 127 -- DOMAIN EUCARYA -- 4 Mushrooms, moulds, and lichens; rusts, smut, and rot 159 -- KINGDOM FUNGI -- 5 The animals I8s -- KINGDOM ANIMALIA -- 6 Anemones, corals, jellyfish, and sea pens 211 -- PHYLUM CNIDARIA -- 7 Clams and cockles, snails and slugs, octopuses and squids 225 -- PHYLUM MOLLUSCA -- 8 Animals withjointed legs 247 -- PHYLUM ARTHROPODA -- 9 Lobsters, crabs, shrimps, barnacles, and many more besides 269 -- SUBPHYLUM CRUSTACEA* -- 10 The insects 287 -- SUBPHYLUM INSECTA -- 11 Spiders, scorpions, mites, -- eurypterids, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders 309 -- SUBPHYLUM CHELICERATA AND SUBPHYLUM PYCNOGONIDA -- 12 Starfish and brittle stars, -- sea urchins and sand dollars, sea lilies, sea daisies, and sea cucumbers 327 -- PHYLUM ECHINODERMATA -- 13 Sea squirts, lancelets, and vertebrates 339 -- PHYLUM CHORDATA -- 14 Sharks, rays, and chimaeras 355 -- CLASS CHONDRICHTHYES -- 15 The ray-finned fish 369 -- CLASS ACTINOPTERYGII -- 16 Lobefins andtetrapods 389 -- THE SARCOPTERYGII -- 17 The reptiles 407 -- CLASS REPTILIA* -- 18 The mammals 433 -- CLASS MAMMALIA -- 19 Lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes 461 -- ORDER PRIMATES -- 20 Human beings and our immediate relatives 489 -- FAMILY HOMINIDAE S.S. -- 21 The birds 515 -- CLASS AVES -- 22 The modern birds 529 -- SUBCLASS NEORNITHES -- 23 The plants 547 -- KINGDOM PLANTAE -- 24 The flowering plants 577 -- CLASS ANGIOSPERMAE -- 25 Daisies, artichokes, thistles, and lettuce 593 -- FAMILY COMPOSITAE (OR ASTERACEAE) -- PART III -- EPILOGUE -- Saving what is left 609 -- Sources andfurther reading 629 -- Geological timescale 645 -- General index 647 -- Index of organisms 655.

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