The Variety of Life

A survey and a celebration of all the creatures that have ever lived

684 pages, parution le 22/03/2002

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Résumé

Provides a summary of ALL creatures, alive and extinct
The only one-volume summary of all living things
Classifies all principal groups to which living things belong
Whatever living thing you come across - from E coli to an oak tree or an elephant - the book shows what kind of living thing it is, and how it relates to all others
Beautiful illustrations throughout

Contents

Part I : The Craft and science of classification

Part II : A survey of all living creatures

From two kingdoms to three domains
The domain of the prokaryotes : Bacteria and archaea;
The domain of the nucleus : The eucaryota;
Mushrooms, moulds and lichens : rusts, smut and rot
The Animals;
Anemones, corals, jellyfish and sea-pens;
Clams and cockles, snails and slugs, octopus and squids;
Animals with jointed legs;
Lobsters, crabs, shrimps, barnacles and many more besides;
The insects;
Spiders, scorpions, mites, water-scorpions, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders;
Starfish and brittle stars, sea urchins and sand dollars, sea lilies, sea daisies and sea cucumbers;
Sea-squirts, lancelets, and vertebrates;
Sharks, rays and chimaeras;
The ray-finned bony fish;
Lobefins and tetrapods;
The reptiles;
The mammals;
Lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys and apes: The order of the primates;
Human beings and our immediate relatives;
The birds;
The modern birds;
The plants;
The flowering plants;
Daisies, artichockes, thistles and lettuce

Part III : Epilogue

Index

Colin Tudge est l'un des plus célèbres journalistes scientifiques de Grande-Bretagne.