Organizing the Green World: A Conceptual History of Botanical Classification
This book focuses on plant systematics and evolution, with special interest on the history and philosophy of botanical classification. Tracing the history of how humans have dealt with ordering the plant world is very much a glimpse of how human culture and science have progressed over the past 2000...
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. 2025. |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Chapter 1 Classification as a portrait of reality
- Chapter 2 Observing the natural world
- Chapter 3 Keeping ancient knowledge alive
- Chapter 4 Utility of plants for humans
- Chapter 5 Early efforts toward formal classification
- Chapter 6 A stable and convenient system emerges
- Chapter 7 Improving predictive quality
- Chapter 8 Development of evolutionary thinking
- Chapter 9 Phylogenetic/evolutionary classification systems: European influences
- Chapter 10 Phylogenetic/evolutionary classification systems: American and other Influences
- Chapter 11 The populational revolution
- Chapter 12 Explanation and quantification in classification
- Chapter 13 Putting descent into quantitative classification
- Chapter 14 Phylogenetic analysis and its influence on classification
- Chapter 15 Quantitative evolutionary phylogenetics
- Chapter 16 Horizons.