The naming of the shrew / John Wright.

  • Wright, John, 1951-
Date:
2014
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Subtitle on dust jacket: A curious history of Latin names

Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2014.

Physical description

xv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Contents

Why do we use Latin names? -- The names there are -- The language of naming -- The act of naming -- The rules of naming -- The history of naming -- The father of taxonomy -- Taxonomy after Linnaeus -- What is a species? -- The tree of life.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-283) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    AO.AM
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ISBN

  • 9781408816981
  • 1408816989