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100 1 _aTudge, Colin,
_eauthor.
_91035029
245 1 4 _aThe variety of life :
_ba survey and a celebration of all the creatures that have ever lived /
_cColin Tudge.
264 1 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2000.
300 _axii, 684 pages :
_billustrations (some colour) ;
_c29 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 629-644) and index.
505 0 0 _tAcknowledgements --
_tIllustration credits --
_gPt. I.
_tThe Craft and Science of Classification --
_gCh. 1.
_t'So many goodly creatures' --
_gCh. 2.
_tClassification and the search for order --
_gCh. 3.
_tThe natural order: Darwin's dream and Hennig's solution --
_gCh. 4.
_tData --
_gCh. 5.
_tClades, grades, and the naming of parts: a plea for Neolinnaean Impressionism --
_gPt. II.
_tA Survey of all Living Creatures --
_tHow to use this book --
_g1.
_tFrom two kingdoms to three domains --
_g2.
_tThe domains of the prokaryotes --
_g3.
_tThe realm of the nucleus --
_g4.
_tMushrooms, moulds, and lichens; rusts, smut, and rot --
_g5.
_tThe animals --
_g6.
_tAnemones, corals, jellyfish, and sea pens --
_g7.
_tClams and cockles, snails and slugs, octopuses and squids --
_g8.
_tAnimals with jointed legs --
_g9.
_tLobsters, crabs, shrimps, barnacles, and many more besides --
_g10.
_tThe insects --
_g11.
_tSpiders, scorpions, mites, curypterids, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders --
_g12.
_tStarfish and brittle stars, sea urchins and sand dollars, sea lilies, sea daisies, and sea cucumbers --
_g13.
_tSea squirts, lancelets, and vertebrates --
_g14.
_tSharks, rays, and chimaeras --
_g15.
_tThe ray-finned fish --
_g16.
_tLobefins and tetrapods --
_g17.
_tThe reptiles --
_g18.
_tThe mammals --
_g19.
_tLemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes --
_g20.
_tHuman beings and our immediate relatives --
_g21.
_tThe birds --
_g22.
_tThe modern birds --
_g23.
_tThe plants --
_g24.
_tThe flowering plants --
_g25.
_tDaisies, artichokes, thistles, and lettuce --
_gPt. III.
_tEpilogue: Saving what is left --
_tSources and further reading --
_tGeological timescale --
_tGeneral index --
_tIndex of organisms.
520 1 _a"The Variety of Life achieves in one volume what most people would think impossible. It introduces all the principal groups of creatures that are now believed to have existed in the history of the Earth. It reveals their astonishing range of form and lifestyle, showing in passing that animals and plants are really very similar, compared to many (or most) of the rest. Yet it shows how all earthly creatures are related to all the others, despite the vast differences between them. The Variety of Life also explains how biologists have arrived at their present understanding of life's diversity, describing and assessing the state of our knowledge as the new millennium begins." "The Variety of Life is for everyone who is interested in living things: professionals, casual naturalists, and indeed anyone with any curiosity at all."--Jacket.
588 _aMachine converted from AACR2 source record.
650 0 _aBiology
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650 0 _aBiodiversity.
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