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

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. CW Ross; Introduction to the principles of plant taxonomy, by. The Principles of Animal Taxonomy. This is because introducing a new species name, or otherwise intervening on the use of the scientific names of animals, is not simply a way to translate into words the author's view on a particular problem of animal taxonomy. Scientifically, it is called taxonomy and rooted in ancient Greek. Biological systematics: principles and applications. New York: Columbia University Press. The choice of the names by which we refer to the individual species, genera or families in the animal kingdom is ruled by a set of principles known as the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[2] (hereafter, 'the Code'). The first significant definitions were developed by Aristotle. Andrew Pawley (Aukland, 1991), 137-47; Brent Berlin, Ethnobiological Classification: Principles of Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional Societies (Princeton, 1992); Douglas Medin and Scott Atran, eds.