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

Scarcely a decade ago, Simpson (1961) matter-of-factly concluded that for the protists "evolutionary classification is not yet practicable. According to Simpson (“Principles of animal taxonomy”), a taxonomy is a “classification, including bases, principles, procedures and rules”. The system that we still use today for giving scientific names to plants and animals has many founders, from the Greek philosopher Aristotle to the Swedish physician and botanist Carolus Linnaeus. With Darwin's theory, a general acceptance that classification should reflect the Darwinian principle of common descent quickly appeared. Comparison of exotic horn types The heroic age of biological taxonomy is long over, but anatomy as an explanatory principle is still able to take over with a special convincing force any wonderful being from the world of legends to our one. We evaluated completeness, accuracy, and historical trend of the taxonomic knowledge on the myrmecophilous ground beetle tribe Paussini (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Paussinae). The classic example is Linnaeus' animal kingdom taxonomy. While he continued throughout his lifetime to revise and expand this great work, so his successors have continued to revise the principles of taxonomy, now according to genetic principles, informed by the analysis of DNA. By method authors mean an arrangement of minerals, plants, and animals according to the principles of logical division. Each recently discovered new animal or prodigious being became understandable and inserted in the common system for once as soon as its anatomy was described and, first of all, depicted. Tree of Life representations became popular in scientific works, with known fossil groups incorporated. While doing a presentation on the Principles of Taxonomy, I was asked the question of “How do you know when to choose a hierarchical taxonomy or a faceted taxonomy? Arthropods are the most diversified animal group [1, 2].