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Animal Species and Their Evolution
β Scribed by A. J. Cain
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 208
- Series
- Princeton Legacy Library; 162
- Edition
- With a New afterword by the author
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- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Long before Charles Darwin undertook his first voyage, animal taxonomists had begun the scientific classification of animals, plants, and minerals. In the mid-1950s, taxonomist A. J. Cain summarized the state of knowledge about the structure of the living world in his major book Animal Species and Their Evolution. His work remains remarkably current today. Here Cain explains each of the terms by which scientists now classify all animals--from species through genus, family, order, class, and phylum.
The work of the modern taxonomist is dependent on the work of paleontologists, field biologists, ecologists, and other specialists who help piece together the puzzle of nature. This seminal text will interest students in each of these areas. It will also appeal to historians of science and to all amateur scientists with an interest in the animal kingdom.
Originally published in 1993.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Chapter I. Introduction
Chapter II. Methods of Classification
Chapter III. Rank
Chapter IV. Names
Chapter V. The Polytypic Species
Chapter VI. The Biological Species
Chapter VII. Other Sorts of Species
Chapter VIII. Geographical Speciation
Chapter IX. Sympatric Speciation
Conclusion
Suggestions for Further Reading
Afterword (1993)
Index
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