Introduction: Carving nature at its joints, or Why birds are not dinosaurs and men are not apes -- Part I. The Interrelationships of Organisms: 1. What this book is about -- 2. Classification -- Part ...

IN much of the academic teaching of biology at the present time, the view is expressed or implied that biological classification is meaningless except as a more or less convenient device for filing ...

THE question is often asked by students as to which is the 'right' classification of a group of animals. Mr. K. H. Chapman, lecturer in zoology, Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, South Africa, ...

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Why classify? -- 2. The Aristotelian framework -- 3. The Darwinian pivot -- 4. Evolutionary taxonomy and the cladistic challenge -- 5.

The classification of animal groups is essential to the development of modern biology—but it's extremely complicated. Trying to shoehorn the messy, complicated web of interrelationships that is ...