- Jubilee offer: spend £10 or more on any product sold by Amazon.co.uk on or before June 6 and you can buy "The Diamond Jubilee - A Classical Celebration Album" for just £2.50. Here's how (terms and conditions apply)
Kingdoms and Domains
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| |||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £19.85
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Kingdoms and Domains: Illustrated Phyla of Life for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £19.85, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Product Description
Now published by "Academic Press" and revised from the author's previous "Five Kingdoms, Third Edition", this extraordinary, all inclusive catalogue of the world's living organisms describes the diversity of the major groups, or phyla, of nature's most inclusive taxa. Developed after consultation with specialists, this modern classification scheme is consistent both with the fossil record and with recent molecular, morphological and metabolic data. Generously illustrated, now in full color, "Kingdoms and Domains" is remarkably easy to read. It accesses the full range of life forms that still inhabit our planet and logically and explicitly classifies them according to their evolutionary relationships. Definitive characteristics of each phylum are professionally described in ways that, unlike most scientific literature, profoundly respect the needs of educators, students and nature lovers. This work is meant to be of interest to all evolutionists as well as to conservationists, ecologists, genomicists, geographers, microbiologists, museum curators, oceanographers, paleontologists and, especially nature lovers whether artists, gardeners or environmental activists. "Kingdoms and Domains" is a unique and indispensable reference for anyone intrigued by a planetary phenomenon: the spectacular diversity of life, both microscopic and macroscopic, as we know it only on Earth today. This work also carries: new foreword by Edward O. Wilson; the latest concepts of molecular systematics, symbiogenesis, and the evolutionary importance of microbes; newly expanded chapter openings that define each kingdom and place its members in context in geological time and ecological space; definitions of terms in the glossary and throughout the book; ecostrips, illustrations that place organisms in their most likely environments such as deep sea vents, tropical forests, deserts or hot sulfur springs; and, a new table that compares features of the most inclusive taxa. This book shows an application of a logical, authoritative, inclusive and coherent overall classification scheme based on evolutionary principles.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon.co.uk.
5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
2 reviews
5 of 10 people found the following review helpful
New edition of "Five Kingdoms"
20 July 2010
Format:Hardcover
The previous edition of this book is 1998's Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth. My rating is based on that edition. Amazon doesn't have a link to the 1998 edition, so I'm writing this review to provide a link, where you'll find some helpful reviews. You can buy that 1998 edition for much, much less than this one, and the content is mostly identical.
2 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Impossible in kindle
4 Feb 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a great book that is impossible to read in kindle and it speaks very poorly of amazon to allow it for sale. No table of contents, figures unreadable, tables are miniscule. Horrible
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Science & Nature > Biological Sciences > Biological Science > Cell Biology
- Books > Science & Nature > Biological Sciences > Biological Science > Developmental Biology
- Books > Science & Nature > Biological Sciences > Human Biology > Developmental Biology
- Books > Science & Nature > Biological Sciences > Taxonomy & Systematics
- Books > Scientific, Technical & Medical
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
