Taxonomy & Systematics

The quirky and profound international bestseller - a darkly astonishing scientific biography and a guide on how to live well in a world where chaos...

Winner of the 2000 American Studies Network Prize and the Literature and Language Award from the Association of American Publishers, Inc. Early Ame...

Winner of the 2000 American Studies Network Prize and the Literature and Language Award from the Association of American Publishers, Inc. Early Ame...

Many species of penicillium and aspergillus are important in biotechnology, food, medicine, biodeterioration and other applied fields, so a practic...

The first, definitive reference on the natural history and ecology of every one of the known 6500+ species of lizards, spanning the entire globe.Ou...

Systematists, comparative biologists, taxonomists and evolutionary biologists all concern themselves with the evolutionary relationships between an...

The automated identification of biological objects or groups has been a dream among taxonomists and systematists for centuries. However, progress i...

This book is an extended argument for abandoning the species rank. Instead, the author proposes that the rank of "species" be replaced by a plurali...

Flora of North America, Volume 3, provides information on many of the most familiar wildflowers and trees in North America. Included are treatments...

A vivid portrait of the life and work of Carl LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus (1707–1778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalized and ...

Field Guide to the Snakes of Eswatini offers a complete account of all 63 snake species recorded in the Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly known as Swaz...

This volume gives an account of the morphology and taxonomy of "Trichoderma" and "Gliocladium", before disscusing their ecology and basic biology.

Ernst Mayr is perhaps the most distinguished biologist of the twentieth century, and Systematics and the Origin of Species may be one of his greate...

Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of this diversity of body ...

This book examines sociobiology and evolution from the scientific and philosophical perspectives. Both sociobiology and evolution are areas of mode...

While there have been controversial attempts to link conclusions from sociobiological studies of animal populations to humans, few behavioural scie...

Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of this diversity of body ...

Parsimony analysis (cladistics) has long been one of the most widely used methods of phylogenetic inference in the fields of systematic and evoluti...

Ancestral sequence reconstruction is a technique of growing importance in molecular evolutionary biology and comparative genomics. As a powerful to...

Designed as an introduction to the intriguing world of insect biology, this book examines familiar entomological topics in nontraditional ways. Aut...

New species are discovered every day-and cataloguing all of them has grown into a nearly insurmountable task worldwide. Now, this definitive refere...

New species are discovered every day-and cataloguing all of them has grown into a nearly insurmountable task worldwide. Now, this definitive refere...

Humankind’s fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival – differentiating the edible from the toxic, the ferocious from the t...

To document the world’s diversity of species and reconstruct the tree of life we need to undertake some simple but mountainous tasks. Most importan...

Annelids (the segmented worms) exist in a remarkably diverse range of mostly marine but also freshwater and terrestrial habitats, varying greatly i...

Protozoa may be found in almost every aquatic habitat, each containing dozens of species. The diversity can provide invaluable insights into the na...

The culmination of more than fifty years of research by the foremost living expert on plant classification, Diversity and Classification of Floweri...

Scientists are becoming increasingly concerned that only 15% of plant and animal diversity has been catalogued to date. In this text, 21 leading ex...

This book discusses the evidence for and against the heritability of acquired characters. Does the inheritance of acquired characteristics play a s...

The advent of relational databasing and data storage capacity, coupled with revolutionary advances in molecular sequencing technology and specimen ...

'Species' are central to understanding the origin and dynamics of biological diversity; explaining why lineages split into multiple distinct specie...

Phylogenetic Systematics: Haeckel to Hennig traces the development of phylogenetic systematics against the foil of idealistic morphology through 10...

Inspired by the pace of change in the taxonomy of the aerobic endospore-forming bacteria, the "Bacillus 2000" symposium on which this book is based...

Field Guide to the Birds of North America is a complete, compact and user-friendly guide to all the birds of the USA and Canada (excluding Hawaii)....

This series of books is a translation of Flora Evropeiskoi Chasti SSR, which provides information on the wild and most important cultivated plants ...

Animal Evolution provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary interrelationships and myriad diversity of the Animal Kingdom. It reviews th...

The focus of the present edition has been to further consolidate the information on the principles of plant systematic, include detailed discussion...

For centuries orchids have been among the most popular of plant families, with thousands of species and hybrids cultivated worldwide for the divers...

Human Population Biology is a careful integration of the social and biological sciences, drawing on anthropology, biology, human ecology and medici...

Recent advances in molecular genetics make the sequencing of genes a straightforward exercise. Comparisons of sequenced genes from different indivi...

In his historical perspective on the changes in scientific thought over the last 100 years, Carl N. Degler explores the study of social evolution a...

Animal Evolution provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary interrelationships and myriad diversity of the Animal Kingdom. It reviews th...

For centuries orchids have been among the most popular of plant families, with thousands of species and hybrids cultivated worldwide for the divers...