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    This book covers both microtaxonomy,taxonomy at the species level,and macrotaxonomy,classification of the higher taxa. This second edition has a greater emphasis on concepts and theory.

    From wilderness to metropolis in 15,000,000 years--the unfolding story of human evolution & the human condition, as revealed by new discoveries in archeology & primate behavior.

    Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual and parental behaviour of the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.

    European botanists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used this variation to classify different kinds into a hierachy of family, genus, and species. Although useful, these classifications were based on a belief in the fixity of species and the static patterns of variation. Darwin's theory of evolution changed this view; populations and species varied in time and space and were part of a continuing process of evolution. The development of molecular techniques has transformed our understanding of microevolution and the evolutionary history of the flowering plants. This revised, extended edition describes the historical background to plant variation studies and considers the remarkable insights that molecular biology has recently given into the processes of evolution in populations of cultivated, wild and weedy species; the threats of extinction faced by many endangered species and the wider evolutionary history of the flowering plants as revealed by cladistic methods.