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基本説明
"Systematics and the exact tracing of evolutionary pathways increasingly continue their renaissance as a major enterprise of biology. Theodore W. Pietsch's Trees of Life: A Visual History of Evolution is an excellent way to study and think about the historical process that is underway." - E. O. Wilson, Harvard University.
Full Description
For the past 450 years, tree-like branching diagrams have been created to show the complex and surprising interrelationships of organisms, both living and fossil, from viruses and bacteria to birds and mammals. This stunning book celebrates the manifest beauty, intrinsic interest, and human ingenuity of these exquisite trees of life. Theodore W. Pietsch has chosen 230 trees of life - from among thousands of possible contenders - dating from the sixteenth century to the present day. His arrangement gives readers a visual sense of the historical development of these diagrams and shows how, in Darwin's words, "from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." Pietsch's brief, accessible prose accompanies the diverse trees to fully reveal the engrossing history of human theories of evolution. Over the centuries, trees of life appeared in a wide variety of forms; some were revered as iconic while others incited intense controversy. The earliest examples were meant to portray the imagined temporal order in which God created life on Earth. More recent scientific trees represent hypothetical histories of life.
Never before has the full spectrum of trees of life been brought together in a single volume. Pietsch has spent decades collecting and researching the origin and meaning of these evolutionary trees and presents a visually breathtaking and intellectually brilliant history of the form.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Brackets and Tables, Circles and Maps, 1554-1778
Early Botanical Networks and Trees, 1766-1815
The First Evolutionary Tree, 1786-1820
Diverse and Unusual Trees of the Early Nineteenth Century, 1817-1834
The Rule of Five, 1819-1854
Pre-Darwinian Branching Diagrams, 1828-1858
Evolution and the Trees of Charles Darwin, 1837-1868
The Trees of Ernst Haeckel, 1866-1905
Post-Darwinian Nonconformists, 1868-1896
More Late Nineteenth-Century Trees, 1874-1897
Trees of the Early Twentieth Century, 1901-1930
The Trees of Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1933-1966
Additional Trees of the Mid-Twentieth Century, 1931-1943
The Trees of William King Gregory, 1938-1951
Hints of New Approaches, 1954-1970
Phenograms and Cladograms, 1958-1966
Early Molecular Trees, 1962-1987
Notable Trees of the Past Four Decades, 1970-2010
Primeval Branches and Universal Trees of Life, 1997-2010
Glossary
Notes
References
Index
