The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification

by Hervé Le Guyader and Guillaume Lecointre

Did you know that you are more closely related to a mushroom than to a daisy? That crocodiles are closer to birds than to lizards? That dinosaurs are still among us? That the terms "fish," "reptiles," and "invertebrates" do not indicate scientific groupings? All this is the result of major changes in classification, whose methods have been totally revisited over the last thirty years.

Modern classification, based on phylogeny, no longer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674021835
• ISBN13: 9780674021839
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.8" x 11.3"