The classification of animal groups is essential to the development of modern biology—but it's extremely complicated. Trying to shoehorn the messy, complicated web of interrelationships that is ...

There are millions of different types of living things on Earth. In order to keep track of them all, scientists put living things into groups based on characteristics that they have that are the same.

THE question is often asked by students as to which is the 'right' classification of a group of animals. Mr. K. H. Chapman, lecturer in zoology, Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, South Africa, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Aristotelian principles still dominate botanical classification. Biological classification has undergone a major transformation during the ...