Assembling the Tree of Life
1st Edition
Published on 22. July 2004
593 pages
978-0-19-972960-9 (ISBN)
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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.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: Charting the Tree of Life
- I: The Importance of Knowing the Tree of Life
- 1 The Importance of the Tree of Life to Society
- 2 A Tangled Bank: Reflections on the Tree of Life and Human Health
- 3 The Fruit of the Tree of Life: Insights into Evolution and Ecology
- II: The Origin and Radiation of Life on Earth
- 4 The Tree of Life: An Overview
- 5 The Early Branches in the Tree of Life
- 6 Bacteria and Archaea
- 7 The Origin and Radiation of Eucaryotes
- 8 Viruses and the Tree of Life
- III: The Relationships of Green Plants
- 9 Algal Evolution and the Early Radiation of Green Plants
- 10 The Radiation of Vascular Plants
- 11 The Diversification of Flowering Plants
- IV: The Relationships of Fungi
- 12 The Fungi
- V: The Relationships of Animals: Overview
- 13 The History of Animals
- 14 Protostomes and Platyhelminthes: The Worm's Turn
- VI: The Relationships of Animals: Lophotrochozoans
- 15 Toward a Tree of Life for Annelida
- 16 The Mollusca: Relationships and Patterns from Their First Half-Billion Years
- VII: The Relationships of Animals: Ecdysozoans
- 17 Arthropod Systematics: The Comparative Study of Genomic, Anatomical, and Paleontological Information
- 18 Arachnida
- 19 Are the Crustaceans Monophyletic?
- 20 Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolution of Insects
- 21 Phylogeny of the Holometabolous Insects: The Most Successful Group of Terrestrial Organisms
- VIII: The Relationships of Animals: Deuterostomes
- 22 From Bilateral Symmetry to Pentaradiality: The Phylogeny of Hemichordates and Echinoderms
- 23 Chordate Phylogeny and Development
- 24 Gnathostome Fishes
- 25 Amphibians: Leading a Life of Slime
- 26 Resolving Reptile Relationships: Molecular and Morphological Markers
- 27 Phylogenetic Relationships among Modern Birds (Neornithes): Toward an Avian Tree of Life
- 28 Building the Mammalian Sector of the Tree of Life: Combining Different Data and a Discussion of Divergence Times for Placental Mammals
- 29 Human Origins: Life at the Top of the Tree
- IX: Perspectives on the Tree of Life
- 30 The Meaning of Biodiversity and the Tree of Life
- 31 A Tree Grows in Manhattan
- 32 The Tree of Life and the Grand Synthesis of Biology
- 33 Immeasurable Progress on the Tree of Life
- 34 Assembling the Tree of Life: Where We Stand at the Beginning of the 21st Century
- Index
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