CLST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Phylogenetic Tree, Carl Linnaeus
21 Aug 2016
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Logic (6 books: modern sized books, not papyrus. Ethics/politics (3 books or so: not all books are necessarily by aristotle. Rhetoric and poetics (2 03 3 books) Meteorology comets are included: psychology, biology. Works on sense, perception, sleep the soul. Movements of animals locomotion of animals generation of animals. The history of animals a very dry read a taxonomy like linnaeus or his successors would mean: pick some characteristics, group things together accordingly. Genetic relationship between various species was a relatively new discovery: aristotle did not hypothesize this. He thinks he is work classing animals based on their nature, not their genetics. No bird with crooked talons are gregarious. Goes over every animal he can think of. Some are ungenerated, imperishable and eternal, while others are subject to generation and decay. The former are excellent beyond compare and divine: cant access knowledge as easily, cosmos, heavens.
