Organizing the Green World: A Conceptual History of Botanical Classification

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.

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• História da Ciência
• Biologia do desenvolvimento
• Botânica e ciências das plantas
• Evolução
• Ecologia das plantas

systematic botany;systematics ;hierarchical classification;cultural changes;phylogenetics;Cladistics