Classification And Biology

Author : Richard A. Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107065372
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biological Classification written by Richard A. Richards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive introduction to the philosophical foundations and development of modern biological classification.

Author : R.A. Crowson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351528068
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classification and Biology written by R.A. Crowson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classification of plants and animals is of basic interest to biologists in all fields because correct formulation and generalization are based on sound taxonomy. This book by a world authority relates traditional taxonomic studies to developments in biochemical and other fields. It provides guidelines for the integration of modern and traditional methods and explains the underlying principles and philosophy of systematics. The problems of zoological, botanical, and paleontological classifi cation are dealt with in great detail and microbial systematics briefly.

Author : Alec L. Panchen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521315784
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology written by Alec L. Panchen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, naturalists who proposed theories of evolution, including Darwin and Wallace, did so in order to explain the apparent relationship of natural classification. This book begins by exploring the intimate historical relationship between patterns of classification and patterns of phylogeny. However, it is a circular argument to use the data for classification. Alec Panchen presents other evidence for evolution in the form of a historically based but rigorously logical argument. This is followed by a history of methods of classification and phylogeny reconstruction including current mathematical and molecular techniques. The author makes the important claim that if the hierarchical pattern of classification is a real phenomenon, then biology is unique as a science in making taxonomic statements. This conclusion is reached by way of historical reviews of theories of evolutionary mechanism and the philosophy of science as applied to biology. The book is addressed to biologists, particularly taxonomists, concerned with the history and philosophy of their subject, and to philosophers of science concerned with biology. It is also an important source book on methods of classification and the logic of evolutionary theory for students, professional biologists, and paleontologists.

Author : Kristi Lew
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0766099393
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taxonomy: The Classification of Biological Organisms written by Kristi Lew and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through simple yet engaging language and detailed images and charts, readers will explore the work of Aristotle, Linnaeus, Darwin, and other well-known, and some not so well-known, figures throughout history who tried to make sense of the natural world, as well as the breakthroughs and technologies that allow scientists to study organisms down to the genetic level. This book supports the Next Generation Science Standards on heredity and biological evolution by helping students understand how mutations lead to genetic variation, which in turn leads to natural selection. In addition, informative sidebars, a bibliography, and a Further Reading section with current books and educational websites will allow inquisitive minds to dive deeper into the evolutionary relationships among organisms.

Author : Roy Albert Crowson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classification and Biology written by Roy Albert Crowson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Wilkins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137318120
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Classification written by J. Wilkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing the generally ignored issue of the classification of natural objects in the philosophy of science, this book focuses on knowledge and social relations, and offers a way to understand classification as a necessary aspect of doing science.

Author : Kostas Kampourakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108491839
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Science for Biologists written by Kostas Kampourakis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short and accessible introduction to philosophy of science for students and researchers across the life sciences.

Author : Catherine Kendig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317215427
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice written by Catherine Kendig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume of 13 new essays aims to turn past discussions of natural kinds on their head. Instead of presenting a metaphysical view of kinds based largely on an unempirical vantage point, it pursues questions of kindedness which take the use of kinds and activities of kinding in practice as significant in the articulation of them as kinds. The book brings philosophical study of current and historical episodes and case studies from various scientific disciplines to bear on natural kinds as traditionally conceived of within metaphysics. Focusing on these practices reveals the different knowledge-producing activities of kinding and processes involved in natural kind use, generation, and discovery. Specialists in their field, the esteemed group of contributors use diverse empirically responsive approaches to explore the nature of kindhood. This groundbreaking volume presents detailed case studies that exemplify kinding in use. Newly written for this volume, each chapter engages with the activities of kinding across a variety of disciplines. Chapter topics include the nature of kinds, kindhood, kinding, and kind-making in linguistics, chemical classification, neuroscience, gene and protein classification, colour theory in applied mathematics, homology in comparative biology, sex and gender identity theory, memory research, race, extended cognition, symbolic algebra, cartography, and geographic information science. The volume seeks to open up an as-yet unexplored area within the emerging field of philosophy of science in practice, and constitutes a valuable addition to the disciplines of philosophy and history of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Author : Jeri Freedman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9781404204003
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Applications and Limitations of Taxonomy (in Classification of Organisms) written by Jeri Freedman and published by The Rosen Publishing Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects articles that discuss what taxonomy is, and how it is important in the field of biology regarding the classification of organisms.

Author : Pierre Pellegrin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520330412
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's Classification of Animals written by Pierre Pellegrin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.