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Item specifics
- Condition
- Era
- 2000s
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780198503118
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198503113
ISBN-13
9780198503118
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1641703
Product Key Features
Book Title
Variety of Life : a Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived
Number of Pages
700 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Life Sciences / Botany, Life Sciences / Biological Diversity, General, Ecology
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
63.8 Oz
Item Length
7.4 in
Item Width
11.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-050043
Reviews
'"This book is a remarkable achievement, giving an authoritative overview of the whole of life in a readable way that should be accessible to anyone with an interest in natural history. Find an excuse to buy it."'Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 2000, 'This book is a remarkable achievement, giving an authoritative overview of the whole of life in a readable way that should be accessible to anyone with an interest in natural history. Find an excuse to buy it.'Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 2000, '"Throughout the book, which one might expect to be dryly taxonomical, heinserts adjectives like 'fascinating', 'marvellous', and 'extraordinary'. I willlet his own words describe his book."'Richard Eliis, The Times, 'The first part of The Variety of Life provides an excellent discussionand explanation of the systematisation of life, which is far from being staticand boring.'The Herald, 'Taxonomy may sound dull, but Tudge makes a brilliant case for it. Aseasoned science writer with a delightfully light touch, he can make the mostarcane subject appealing... a beautifully illustrated introduction to everythingthat's ever lived.'Independent Weekend, '"...For all natural historians and anyone professing biology The Varietyof Life is a must"'Douglas Palmer, Amazon.co.uk, 'The Variety of Life is far more than just another good popular sciencebook. It's a celebration of the "huge privilege" it is to share the planet withso many fantastical creatures.'Independent Weekend, 'The Variety of Life is far more than just another good popular science book. It's a celebration of the "huge privilege" it is to share the planet with so many fantastical creatures.'Independent Weekend, '"...For all natural historians and anyone professing biology The Variety of Life is a must"'Douglas Palmer, Amazon.co.uk, '"Throughout the book, which one might expect to be dryly taxonomical, he inserts adjectives like 'fascinating', 'marvellous', and 'extraordinary'. I will let his own words describe his book."'Richard Eliis, The Times, 'Taxonomy may sound dull, but Tudge makes a brilliant case for it. A seasoned science writer with a delightfully light touch, he can make the most arcane subject appealing... a beautifully illustrated introduction to everything that's ever lived.'Independent Weekend, '"This book is a remarkable achievement, giving an authoritative overviewof the whole of life in a readable way that should be accessible to anyone withan interest in natural history. Find an excuse to buy it."'Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 2000, '...exceptionally clear, user-friendly, and up-to-date...a valuable introduction to the higher classification of organisms and an easily accessible reference work to the entire spread of biodiversity.'Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University, 'Hopefully, the success The Variety of Life deserves will help encourage us "to share (our planet) with so many goodly creatures".'The Herald, 'The first part of The Variety of Life provides an excellent discussion and explanation of the systematisation of life, which is far from being static and boring.'The Herald, '...exceptionally clear, user-friendly, and up-to-date...a valuableintroduction to the higher classification of organisms and an easily accessiblereference work to the entire spread of biodiversity.'Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University, 'Hopefully, the success The Variety of Life deserves will help encourageus "to share (our planet) with so many goodly creatures".'The Herald
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
578/.012
Table Of Content
PART 1: So many goodly creaturesClassification and the search for orderThe natural order: Darwin's dream and Hennig's solutionData; Clade, grade, and a plea for neolinnean impressionismPART 2: From two kingdoms to three domainsThe domain of the prokaryotes: Bacteria and archaeaThe domain on the nucleus: The eucaryotaMushrooms, moulds and lichens: rusts, smut and rot: The kingdom of the fungiThe Animals: Kingdom animaliaAnemones, corals, jellyfish and sea-pens: Phylum cnidariaClams and cockles, snails and slugs, octopus and squids: Phylum molluscaAnimals with jointed legs: Phylum anthropodaLobsters, crabs, shrimps, barnacles, and many more besides: Subphylum crustaceaThe insects: Subphylum insectaSpiders, scorpions, mites, water-scorpions, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders: Subphylum chelicerata and subphylum pycnogonidaStarfish and brittle stars, sea urchins and sand dollars, sea lilies, sea daisies and sea cucumbers: Phylum echinodermataSea-squirts, lancelets, and vertebrates: Phylum chordataSharks, rays and chimaeras: Class chondrichthyesThe ray-finned bony fish: Class actinopterygiiLobefins and tetrapods: The sarcopterygiiThe reptiles: Paraphyletic class reptiliaThe mammals: Class mammaliaLemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys and apes: The order of the primatesHuman beings and our immediate relatives: Family hominidaeThe birds: Class avesThe modern birds: Subclass neornithesThe plants: Kingdom plantaeThe flowering plants: Class angiospermaeDaisies, artichokes, thistles and lettuce: Family compositae alias asteraceaeEpilogueIndex
Synopsis
Here, between the covers of one capacious book, is an illustrated summary of all the creatures that have ever lived, a vast compendium of earth's current and former inhabitants in all their dazzling and infinite diversity. Colin Tudge argues that we are entering a new phase of biology in which, for the first time, biologists are achieving profound insight into life's true diversity and developing the tools to keep track of it. The Variety of Life heralds this new phase. The first part of the book describes why biologists now feel that there could have been as many as 4,000 billion species on Earth since life began. It then discusses the need for classification, beginning with the most basic principles--the strictly practical classification of fishmongers and foresters, who speak of "shellfish" and differentiate "hardwood" from "softwood"--and moves on to explore the intriguing deliberations of the modern "transformed cladists" and the novel contributions of molecular genetics. Part II describes the creatures themselves. It is divided into 24 sections, each describing a different group, illustrated by nearly 50 double-page spreads which present genealogical "trees" that summarize the evolutionary relationships between the creatures in each group. Some sections describe large, comprehensive groups such as the kingdoms of the Animals or the Plants. Others treat similar sub-groups in more detail, such as the Mammals, a class, or the Hominids, a family. In lively and accessible prose, all the significant groups of creatures--both alive and extinct--are described and their relationships clarified. For general readers and serious biologists alike, The Variety of Life offers an unprecedented storehouse of knowledge of life on earth., A magnificently illustrated, highly readable and authoritative account of all creatures, alive and extinct. How is it possible to summarize such a huge number? By classification: the book does not of course describe every individual species, but it does show all principal groups to which all living things belong. Far from being a dull pursuit, the modern craft and science of classification takes us into some of the most intriguing and intricate areas of biological philosophy and technique, in which new studies of extraordinary fossils and of DNA plucked from the wild all play their part. We are entering a new phase of biology in which, for the first time, biologists can feel reasonably confident that they now have insight into life's true diversity, and that they have the methods required to keep track of it.The Variety of Life heralds this new phase. Here is the book that everyone who is interested in living things must own, from general readers to professional biologists.
LC Classification Number
QH83.T84 2000
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