Description

This book is designed to be the most authoritative synthesis of knowledge about the history of life. All the major groups of organisms are treated by the leading workers in their fields. This book should prove indispensable for evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, and ecologists interested in biodiversity. It will also become a sourcebook for oranismic biologists, botanists, and microbiologists. It should be the standard reference in this fundamental area for the next ten years.

Reviews

"Assembling the Tree of Life presents a preliminary view of one of the grand enterprises of modern science, resolving the phylogeny of all life... This volume, the product of a 2002 symposium by the same name held at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York, seeks to blow away the mist and reveal the structure of the whole Tree and, in doing so, galvanize the systematics community toward unifying its goals." -- Science

Product Details

592 pages; 32 halftones, 198 line illus.; 8-1/2 x 11; ISBN13: 978-0-19-517234-8ISBN10: 0-19-517234-5

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