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Diversity of Life: The Illustrated Guide to the Five Kingdoms - Couverture souple

Margulis, Lynn; Schwartz, Karlene; Dolan, Michael

 
9780763708627: Diversity of Life: The Illustrated Guide to the Five Kingdoms
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0763708623 ISBN 13 : 9780763708627
Editeur : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, 1999

Synopsis

This sophisticated coloring book is a beautifully detailed illustration of the world's living diversity. It is written for science students, teachers, and anyone else who is curious about the extraordinary variety of living things that inhabit this planet. It opens with an introduction to the classification systems, distinctions between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, an introduction to life cycles, Earth history, and an explanation of how to best use this coloring book. The next section is organized by communities in which the organisms live. The final section details the variety of major groupings - phyla - within each kingdom and shows how the organisms in each are distinguished from one other. This coloring book gives a visual understanding of the enormous diversity of life on this planet and will be an enlightening and educational resource for students from a variety of backgrounds.

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À propos des auteurs

Lynn Margulis is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is widely recognized for her theories on the symbiotic origin of eukaryotic cells, her development of the Five Kingdom classification scheme, and her role, with James Lovelock, in developing the Gaia Hypothesis. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and recent recipient of the National Medal of Science.

University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts

Michael Dolan is adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. An expert on anaerobic protists of termites, he also teaches the class "Environmental Evolution" to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in biology, chemistry, and astronomy with Dr. Lynn Margulis.

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Éditeur
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0763708623
ISBN 13 
9780763708627
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
248
Coordonnées du fabricant
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