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| So many goodly creatures | |
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| Classification and the search for order | |
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| The natural order: Darwin's dream and Hennig's solution | |
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| Data; Clade, grade, and a plea for neolinnean impressionism | |
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| From two kingdoms to three domains | |
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| The domain of the prokaryotes: Bacteria and archaea | |
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| The domain on the nucleus: The eucaryota | |
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| Mushrooms, moulds and lichens: rusts, smut and rot: The kingdom of the fungi | |
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| The Animals: Kingdom animalia | |
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| Anemones, corals, jellyfish and sea-pens: Phylum cnidaria | |
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| Clams and cockles, snails and slugs, octopus and squids: Phylum mollusca | |
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| Animals with jointed legs: Phylum arthropoda | |
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| Lobsters, crabs, shrimps, barnacles, and many more besides: Subphylum crustacea | |
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| The insects: Subphylum insecta | |
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| Spiders, scorpions, mites, water-scorpions, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders: Subphylum chelicerata and subphylum pycnogonida | |
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| Starfish and brittle stars, sea urchins and sand dollars, sea lilies, sea daisies and sea cucumbers: Phylum echinodermata | |
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| Sea-squirts, lancelets, and vertebrates: Phylum chordata | |
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| Sharks, rays and chimaeras: Class chondrichthyes | |
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| The ray-finned bony fish: Class actinopterygii | |
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| Lobefins and tetrapods: The sarcopterygii | |
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| The reptiles: Paraphyletic class reptilia | |
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| The mammals: Class mammalia | |
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| Lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys and apes: The order of the primates | |
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| Human beings and our immediate relatives: Family hominidae | |
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| The birds: Class aves | |
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| The modern birds: Subclass neornithes | |
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| The plants: Kingdom plantae | |
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| The flowering plants: Class angiospermae | |
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| Daisies, artichokes, thistles and lettuce: Family compositae alias asteraceae | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Index | |