Assembling the Tree of Life
ISBN13: 9780195172348ISBN10: 0195172345
Hardback,
592 pages
Jun 2004,
In Stock
Price:
$48.95 (06)Description
This edited volume is provides an authoritative synthesis of knowledge about the history of life. All the major groups of organisms are treated, by the leading workers in their fields. With sections on: The Importance of Knowing the Tree of Life; The Origin and Radiation of Life on Earth; The Relationships of Green Plants; The Relationships of Fungi; and The Relationships of Animals. This book should prove indispensable for evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, ecologists interested in biodiversity, and as a baseline sourcebook for organismic biologists, botanists, and microbiologists. An essential reference in this fundamental area.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: 0-19-517234-5About the Author(s)
Edited by Joel Cracraft, Curator of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History , and Michael J. Donoghue, Curator, the Herbarium, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
