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Taxonomy And The History Of Science: A Critical Analysis Of Four Historic Publications, Christopher M. Rogers
Taxonomy And The History Of Science: A Critical Analysis Of Four Historic Publications, Christopher M. Rogers
KSU Journey Honors College Capstones and Theses
The history of taxonomy is not usually taught in modern biology classes, but it is necessary to understand the history of classification and science as a whole in order to better understand the processes of classification and thinking that are commonly taught at the college level. Through the exploration of the difficulties of publishing, Linnaeus' Species Plantarum, and three pre-Linnaean works from Pliny the Elder, Nehemiah Grew, and Rembert Dodoens, I have found that the history of the sciences has been largely distorted. The distortion appears to be of many factors, including the replacement of ideas, censorship from scholarly …
Systematics Of Harrisia (Cactaceae), Alan R. Franck
Systematics Of Harrisia (Cactaceae), Alan R. Franck
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The genus Harrisia Britton (Cactaceae) comprises species of columnar cacti that are united by a unique seed morphology. The species range in form from prostrate shrubs to large trees and are native to South America and the Caribbean region. Harrisia is placed in an unresolved position within subtribe Trichocereinae of tribe Cereeae of subfamily Cactoideae. Relationships among the species within Harrisia are also poorly understood. In this study, several species of Harrisia were sequenced for as many as seven different regions of nuclear and plastid DNA. Species in the Caribbean were also examined with amplified fragment length polymorphisms. The morphology …