
Multicellular Animals
Volume III: Order in Nature - System Made by Man
Peter Ax(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 30. November 2010
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Paperback/Softback
XIII, 317 pages
978-3-642-05515-7 (ISBN)
Description
The turtle, toothless, soft bodied, enclosed in boney, shell, is primordial and invincible, slow and changeless. Locked into turtles of time and tradition, inertia and ignorance, darkness and fear, we cajole and pull, struggle and push until we learn that ideas set us free. Fairbanks, Alaska University Campus Sculpture LIz BIESOT 1985 The evolutionary order of organisms as a product of Nature and its repre- sentation in a phylogenetic system as a construct of Man are two different things. The order in Nature consists of relationships between organisms. It is the result of an historic process that we call phylogenesis. When working with this order we must clearly differentiate between its identification and the subsequent description of what has been identified. When identifying the order we are placing ourselves in the framework of "hypothetical realism" (Vol. 1, p. 11); it is principally impossible to de- termine how well or how poorly the real world and our cognitive appara- tus match. For phylogenetics as an historicaUy directed discipline, how- ever, the following limitation is more relevant.
We cannot demonstrate ex- perimentally wh ether or not that which we have interpreted from the prod- ucts of phylogenesis corresponds to facts of (hypothetical) reality.
We cannot demonstrate ex- perimentally wh ether or not that which we have interpreted from the prod- ucts of phylogenesis corresponds to facts of (hypothetical) reality.
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Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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XIII, 317 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
505 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-642-05515-7 (9783642055157)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-08874-6
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Nemathelminthes.- Gastrotricha - Cycloneuralia.- Nematoida - Scalidophora.- Nematoda - Nematomorpha.- Vinctiplicata - Kinorhyncha.- Priapulida - Loricifera.- Rotifera - N. N. (Seison + Acanthocephala).- Monogononta - Bdelloida.- N. N.: Seison + Acanthocephala.- Seison - Acanthocephala.- Echinodermata - Stomochordata.- Crinoida - Eleutherozoa.- Asteroida - Cryptosyringida.- Ophiuroida - Echinozoa.- Echinoida - Holothuroida.- Rhabdopleura - Pharyngotremata.- Cephalodiscida - Cyrtotreta.- Enteropneusta - Chordata.- Tunicata - Vertebrata.- Acrania - Craniota.- Cyclostomata - Gnathostomata.- Petromyzonta - Myxinoida.- Chondrichthyes - Osteognathostomata.- Elasmobranchii - Holocephali.- Actinopterygii - Sarcopterygii.- Cladistia - Actinopteri.- Chondrostei - Neopterygii.- Ginglymodi - Halecostomi.- Halecomorphi - Teleostei.- Actinistia - Choanata.- Dipnoi - Tetrapoda.- Amphibia - Amniota.- Batrachia - Gymnophiona.- Urodela - Anura.- Sauropsida - Mammalia.- Chelonia - Diapsida.- Lepidosauria - Archosauria.- Rhynchocephalia - Squamata.- Crocodylia - Aves.- Paleognathae - Neognathae.- Monotremata - Theria.- Marsupialia - Placentalia.- References.