Principles of animal taxonomy George Gaylord Simpson
Publisher: Columbia University Press

Levels of structural organization; Outline classification of plants, animals and microorganisms; Principles and methods of Taxonomy. More Than Just Making Up Names for Animals: Why Taxonomy Matters. Scarcely a decade ago, Simpson (1961) matter-of-factly concluded that for the protists "evolutionary classification is not yet practicable. Excerpt from Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications. Portrait of adult male Cercopithecus lomamiensis. Scientifically, it is called taxonomy and rooted in ancient Greek. The first significant definitions were developed by Aristotle. Species conservation and systematics: the dilemma of subspecies. Exclusive excerpt from Lord Robert May's book, Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications, published by Oxford University Press, 2007. Nomenclature and Classification, Principles of (Insects). Classification has two meanings in English: the process by which things are grouped into classes by shared characters and the arrangement of those classes. That new glow-in-the-dark cockroach isn't only the scariest bug you've ever seen.