Introduction: Carving nature at its joints, or Why birds are not dinosaurs and men are not apes -- Part I. The Interrelationships of Organisms: 1. What this book is about -- 2. Classification -- Part ...

Classification has been a centerpiece of biology ever since Linnaeus, providing a framework on which existing knowledge can be organized and predictions about unknown traits can be made. But the basis ...

The age of Enlightenment provided the backdrop for eighteenth century European theories about human difference. Exploration of Africa, Asia and the Americas brought Europeans in contact with people ...

Preface / David J. Schmidly and William E. Tydeman -- The United States biological survey : a brief history 1885-1940 / Alfred L. Gardner -- C. Hart Merriam : pioneering mammalogist / Keir B. Sterling ...

THE relation of science to philosophy is, in theory, filial. It is, perhaps, no contradiction of the filial relationship that in practice it has an unfortunate tendency to run to mutual recrimination.

The genera Ectospinula Opitz, new genus, and Prosymnus Laporte, which comprise a monophyletic group within Korynetinae, are reviewed. Ectospinula is monotypic and includes E. graduata Opitz, new ...