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The initial version of a classification system of life by British zoologist Thomas Cavalier-Smith appeared in 1978. [1] [2] This initial system continued to be modified in subsequent versions that were published until he died in 2021. As with classifications of others, such as Carl Linnaeus, Ernst Haeckel, Robert Whittaker, and Carl Woese ...
Cavalier-Smith's first major classification system was the division of all organisms into eight kingdoms. In 1981, he proposed that by completely revising Robert Whittaker's Five Kingdom system, there could be eight kingdoms: Bacteria, Eufungi, Ciliofungi, Animalia, Biliphyta, Viridiplantae, Cryptophyta, and Euglenozoa.
May 10, 2021 · Thomas (Tom) Cavalier-Smith played a crucial part in understanding major transitions in evolution, including the role of endosymbiosis. He has died, aged 78.
- Thomas Richards
- 2021
Apr 29, 2015 · Download PDF. We present a consensus classification of life to embrace the more than 1.6 million species already provided by more than 3,000 taxonomists’ expert opinions in a unified and coherent, hierarchically ranked system known as the Catalogue of Life (CoL).
- Michael A. Ruggiero, Dennis P. Gordon, Thomas M. Orrell, Nicolas Bailly, Thierry Bourgoin, Richard C...
- 2015
Aug 23, 2021 · As a committed systematist, his schemes included classifications of the relevant lineages, and he changed these rapidly in response to new data. Tom was equal parts brilliant, encyclopedic, opinionated, and iconoclastic. He was not afraid to advance bold hypotheses even when data were scarce.
- Andrew J. Roger
- 2021
Apr 29, 2015 · PMID: 25923521. PMCID: PMC4418965. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. Abstract. We present a consensus classification of life to embrace the more than 1.6 million species already provided by more than 3,000 taxonomists' expert opinions in a unified and coherent, hierarchically ranked system known as the Catalogue of Life (CoL).
As a committed systematist, his schemes included classifi cations of the relevant lineages, and he changed these rapidly in response to new data. Tom was equal parts brilliant, encyclopedic, opinionated, and iconoclastic. He was not afraid to advance bold hypotheses even when data were scarce.
