Format:
Online Ressource (xiii, 576 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781280428036
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9780199729609
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0199729603
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9780195172348
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0195172345
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9780195172355
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0195172353
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1280428031
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1423720733
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9781423720737
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1602564965
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9781602564961
Content:
Provides a synthesis of knowledge about the history of life. This work treats the major groups of organisms. It is useful for evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, ecologists interested in biodiversity, and for organismic biologists, botanists, and microbiologists
Note:
Proceedings of a symposium held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, 2002. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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Proceedings of a symposium held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, 2002
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Introduction : Charting the tree of life / Michael J. Donoghue and Joel CracraftThe importance of the tree of life to society / Terry L. Yates, Jorge Salazar-Bravo and Jerry W. Dragoo -- A tangled bank : reflections on the tree of life and human health / Rita R. Colwell -- The fruit of the tree of life : insights into evolution and ecology / Douglas J. Futuyma -- The tree of life : an overview / S.L. Baldauf ... [et al.] -- The early branches in the tree of life / Norman R. Pace -- Bacteria and archaea / W. Ford Doolittle -- The origin and radiation of eucaryotes / Hervé Philippe --Viruses and the tree of life / David P. Mindell, Joshua S. Rest and Luis P. Villarreal -- Algal evolution and the early radiation of green plants / Charles F. Delwiche ... [et al.] -- The radiation of vascular plants / Kathleen M. Pryer, Harald Schneider, and Susana Magallón -- The diversification of flowering plants / Pamela S. Soltis ... [et al.] -- The Fungi / John W. Taylor ... [et al.] -- The history of animals / Douglas J. Eernisse and Kevin J. Peterson -- Protostomes and Platyhelminthes : the worm's turn / D. Timothy J. Littlewood, Maximilian J. Telford and Rodney A. Bray --Toward a tree of life for Annelida / Mark E. Siddall, Elizabeth Borda and Gregory W. Rouse -- The Mollusca : relationships and patterns from their first half-billion years / David R. Lindberg, Winston F. Ponder and Gerhard Haszprunar -- Arthropod systematics : the comparative study of genomic, anatomical, and paleontological information / Ward C. Wheeler, Gonzalo Giribet and Gregory D. Edgecombe -- Arachnida / Jonathan A. Coddington ... [et al.] -- Are the crustaceans monophyletic? / Frederick R. Schram and Stefan Koenemann.
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Phylogenetic relationships and evolution of insects / Rainer WillmannPhylogeny of the holometabolous insects : the most successful group of terrestrial organisms / Michael F. Whiting -- From bilateral symmetry to pentaradiality : the phylogeny of hemichordates and echinoderms / Andrew B. Smith ... [et al.] -- Chordate phylogeny and development / Timothy Rowe -- Gnathostome fishes / M.L.J. Stiassny ... [et al.] -- Amphibians : leading a life of slime / David Cannatella and David M. Hillis -- Resolving reptile relationships : molecular and morphological markers / Michael S.Y. Lee ... [et al.] -- Phylogenetic relationships among modern birds (Neornithes) : toward an avian tree of life / Joel Cracraft ... [et al.] -- Building the mammalian sector of the tree of life : combining different data and a discussion of divergence times for placental mammals / Maureen A. O'Leary ... [et al.] -- Human origins : life at the top of the tree / Bernard Wood and Paul Constantino -- The meaning of biodiversity and the tree of life / Edward O. Wilson -- A tree grows in Manhattan / David B. Wake -- The tree of life and the grand synthesis of biology / David M. Hillis -- Immeasurable progress on the tree of life / Michael J. Donoghue -- Assembling the tree of life : where we stand at the beginning of the 21st century / Joel Cracraft and Michael J. Donoghue.
Additional Edition:
0195172345
Additional Edition:
0195172353
Additional Edition:
1280428031
Additional Edition:
0199729603
Additional Edition:
9780195172348
Additional Edition:
9780195172355
Additional Edition:
9781280428036
Additional Edition:
9780199729609
Additional Edition:
Print version Assembling the tree of life
Language:
English
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