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...