This text can be read at many levels. Not least it is an
extraordinary inventory - an illustrated summary of all the Earthly
creatures that have ever lived. Whatever living thing you come
across, from E-coli to an oak tree or an elephant, this book will
show you what kind of creature it is, and how it relates to all
others. Yet there are far too many creatures to present merely as a
catalogue. The list of species already described is vast enough -
nearly two million - but there could in reality be as many as 30
million different animals, plants, fungi and protists - and perhaps
another 400 million different bacteria and archaea. In the 4000
million years or so since life first began on Earth, there could
have been several thousand billion different species. The only way
to keep track of so many is to classify - placing similar creatures
into categories, which nest within larger categories, and so on. As
the centuries have passed, so it has become clear that the
different groups are far more diverse than had ever been
appreciated. Thus Linneus in the 18th century placed all living
things in just two kingdoms, Animals and Plants.
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