The Biggest of All Families, The History of Taxonomy and its Impact on Society

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The Biggest of All Families, The History of Taxonomy and its Impact on Society

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The aim of this thesis is to analyze the science of taxonomy, its development through time, and how effectively it is communicated to the non-scientific public. Taxonomy is the science of classification of organisms of any kind, living and extinct. Taxonomy helps to understand the phylogenetic relationships and the evolution of organisms. Because of this, taxonomy is a fundamental discipline to understand life on Earth and all biological sciences depend on it to achieve their individual goals...

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2013

Creator

Garcia Sepulveda, Alvaro

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/3905

Related subjects

alvaro / garcia / tree / nature / taxonomy / cladistics / biggest / family / history / impact / society / tree of nature / biggest of all families / history of taxonomy / Linnaeus / Darwin / science communication / science teller festival / phenetics / life

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