Introduction to the Diversity of Life
This text provides a brief introduction to organizing life on Earth, and determining evolutionary relationships.
Topics
- analogous structure
- binomial nomenclature
- branch point
- clade
- cladistics
- class
- domain
- family
- genus
- kingdom
- maximum parsimony
- molecular systematics
- monophyletic group
- order
- phylogenetic tree
- phylogeny
- phylum
- rooted
- shared ancestral character
- shared derived character
- sister taxa
- species
- systematics
- taxon
- taxonomy