Author: Francis Polkinghorne PascoePublisher:
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Code International de Nomenclature Zoologique
Author: International Commission on Zoological NomenclaturePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780853010036
Category : Animals
Languages : fr
Pages : 364
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How Zoologists Organize Things
Author: David BainbridgePublisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 0711252262
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Humankind’s fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival – differentiating the edible from the toxic, the ferocious from the tractable. Since then, our compulsion to catalogue wildlife has played a key role in growing our understanding of the planet and ourselves, inspiring religious beliefs and evolving scientific theories. The book unveils wild truths and even wilder myths about animals, as perpetuated by zoologists – revealing how much more there is to learn, and unlearn. Animals were among the first subjects ever drawn by humans. Long before Darwin or Watson and Crick, our ancestors studied the visual similarities and differences between the creatures which inhabit the Earth alongside us. Early savants could sense there was an order, a scheme, which unified all life. The schemes they formulated often tell us as much about ourselves as they do about the animals depicted, highlighting obsessions, fears, revelations and hopes. The human quest to classify living beings has left us with a rich artistic legacy in four great stages—the folklore and religiosity of the ancient and Medieval world; the naturalistic cataloging of the Enlightenment; the evolutionary trees and maps of the nineteenth century; and the modern, computer-hued classificatory labyrinth. The aim of this book is to tell the story of our systematization of the beasts. These charts of the zoological world parallel prevailing artistic trends and scientific discoveries, woven together with philosophical threads that run throughout: animal life as parable, a tree, a maze, a terra incognita, a mirror upon ourselves.
The Object and Method of Zoological Nomenclature
Author: David SharpBiological Classification
Author: Lectures on the Practice of Botanical and Zoological Classification Delivered in the Rooms of the Linnean Society During the Session, 1949-50
Author: Linnean Society of LondonPublisher:
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Manual of Library Classification and Shelf Arrangement
Author: James Duff BrownPublisher:
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Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Handbook of Zoology
Author: Sir John William DawsonPublisher:
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Category : Invertebrates
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support OfficePublisher:
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1924
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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Outlines of Zoology
Author: John Arthur ThomsonPublisher:
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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