TITLE : Kingdoms and Domains - An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth (4 Edn )
AUTHOR : Lynn Margulis, Michael J.Chapman
PUBLISHER : Elsevier
YEAR : 2009
ISBN 0-7167-3026-X (hardcover: alk. paper).—ISBN 0-7167-3027-8 (pbk.: alk. paper).—
ISBN 0-7167-3183-5 (pbk.: alk paper/ref. booklet).
ISBN: 978-0-12-373621-5
1. Biology—Classification, Evolution
PAGES : lxii + 659 pages with illustrations
FORMAT : Scanned PDF with OCR,bookmarks & covers.
ABOUT THE BOOK : This book provides an illustrated guide to the diversity of life on Earth. As
a comprehensive reference to both microbes and their larger descendants,
it serves as a guidebook to living organisms based on their evolution. What
do they look like, where do they dwell, how are they related to one another,
how best do scientists group them? We try to answer such questions by photographs,
simplified text and drawings. Brief essays introduce the broad
outlines of the “higher” (largest, most inclusive) taxa. If curiosity leads, references
and further reading are included. NASA scientists opened our eyes
to the need for an illustrated guide to the diversity of life on Earth to inform
their search for extraterrestrial life. Kingdoms and Domains includes diagrams
and photographs of whole organisms that should enable recognition of lifeforms
even in outer space. We write for all students of biology at any level
of expertise—whether participants in biology, biodiversity, zoology, botany,
mycology, systematics, evolution, ecology, genetics, and geomicrobiology—or
curious naturalists, geologists, park rangers, space scientists, and armchair
explorers. What characteristics distinguish the members of one taxon? What
broad view of evolutionary relationships is most valid?
