The variety of life : a survey and a celebration of all the creatures that have ever lived / Colin Tudge.
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TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.Description: xv, 684 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN: - 0198604262
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Main Campus Library | University of Eastern Africa, Baraton | QH 83 .T84 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 58619 |
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 s* --PART II --A SURVEY OF ALL LIVING CREATURES --How to use this book 92 --a From two kingdoms of 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 18s --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 with jointed legs
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