Animals, taxonomy

Simpson, G. G. (1961). Principles of animal taxonomy. New York Columbia University Press. 

Simpson, G.G., Principles of Animal Taxonomy, Columbia University Press, New York, 1961. 

These observations by Quinn the Eskirm pry open the door to many difficult issues involving alpacas, science, and the role of the artist. Sure, my comment that alpacas are a cross between a camel and a llama might slash and bum its way through animal taxonomy, and... 

Vimses contain either RNA or DNA, and this nucleic acid composition forms the basis for thek classification. Although vimses ate known to infect bactetia, insects, plants, animals, and humans, this discussion is restticted to the important vimses of vertebrates. The relevant vimses ate summarized in Table 2, using the nomenclature and taxonomy recommended by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Vimses (4,5). 

Taxonomy The classification, nomenclature, and laboratory identification of organisms (Do not confuse with taxidermy - stuffing dead animals)... 

Prediction, meanwhile, is the use of summaries of data and knowledge of the relationships between groups to develop hypotheses as to what will happen when further data are collected (as when more animals or people are exposed to an agent under defined conditions) and as to the mechanisms which cause such relationships to develop. Indeed, classification is the prime device for the discovery of mechanisms in all of science. A classic example of this was Darwin s realization that there were reasons (the mechanisms of evolution) behind the differences and similarities in species which had caused Linaeus to earlier develop his initial modem classification scheme (or taxonomy) for animals. 

Park, O., W. C. Allee and V. E. Shelford. A Laboratory Introduction to Animal Ecology and Taxonomy. Univ. Press. Chicago. 1939. 

Further study of the glycolipids from marine invertebrates, along with investigation of other classes of compounds, may well help in creating the foundation for a chemical taxonomy of these animals. 

This fauna is the most important of all the animal communities of Osztramos, as far as the taxonomy of the rodents of the Lower Pleistocene is concerned. Most remarkable is the occurrence of a surviving representative of the family Eomyidae, which had been thought to have become extinct in the Miocene. This species has been described from this rich locality (Estramomys simplex Janossy, 1969b). In view of recent findings in the Villany mountains and in the Ukraine, this form is likely to be attributed strati-graphical significance in the future. 

The main representative of the classic period of taxonomy, the discipline that classifies and identifies all living creatures, was Carolus Linnaeus (Linneo) (1707-1778), who divided living creatures in two kingdoms animal and vegetal, or the Animalia and... 

Walter C. Sweet The Conodonta morphology, taxonomy, paleoecology, and evolutionary history of a long-extinct animal phylum... 

Taxonomy Names and phrases in higher level categories used as formal knowledge representations for autonomic inferences and certain types of reasoning. Exemplified by the taxonomic tree classifying animals and plants (pp- 29,30). 

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