Bibliograph

Inside biological taxonomy, Verity Miller

Type

Label

Inside biological taxonomy, Verity Miller

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Inside biological taxonomy

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Verity Miller

Series statement

Inside modern genetics

Summary

The natural world is wild, but there's order to it too. To understand biological diversity, scientists arrange organisms into groups, a science called taxonomy. This absorbing volume looks at the ways people have tried to classify the living world over the centuries with a spotlight on the contributions of Carolus Linnaeus, whose system includes the now-famous categories of kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. The accessible text also explains how the science is changing with our developing knowledge of genetics. With millions of species yet to be discovered, the field of taxonomy will continue to tell us how organisms fit into the tree of life

Target audience

adult

Classification