Kingdoms, Empires, and Domains: The History of High-Level Biological Classification 1st Edition Mark A. Ragan

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197643035
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197643037
• Author(s): Mark A. Ragan

A generation or two before Socrates, thinkers classified the world’s organisms into three categories: plants, animals, and man. However, Aristotle recognized that some organisms, such as sponges and sea-fans, share properties of both plants and animals. These became known as zoophytes. Since then, scientists have explored the idea of a “third kingdom.” In Kingdoms, Empires, and Domains, leading molecular systematist Mark A. Ragan offers a history of the idea that there is more to the living world than plants and animals.

Progressing chronologically through philosophical, religious, literary, and other pre-scientific traditions, Ragan traces how transgressive creatures such as sponges, corals, algae, fungi, and diverse microscopic beings have been described, categorized, and understood throughout history. The book considers their appearance in early Christian, Islamic, and Jewish traditions; myths, legends, and traveller’s tales; occult literature; and more. Kingdoms, Empires, and Domains also details how the concept of a “third kingdom” has evolved throughout the history of scientific botany and zoology, and continues to evolve up to the present day.

Table contents:

1. The earliest Nature
2. Eastern Nature
3. Philosophical Nature
4. Utilitarian Nature
5. Neoplatonic Nature
6. Christian Nature
7. Islamic and Jewish Nature
8. Monastic and scholastic Nature
9. Nature’s mystic book
10. Allegory, myth, and superstition
11. The return of the zoophytes
12. Plants and animals
13. The most wretched creatures
14. Continuity in the living world
15. Classifying God’s handiwork
16. Beyond the end of the Chain
17. From histoire naturelle to anatomie and morphologie

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