The Kingdoms of Organisms

@article{Copeland1938TheKO,
  title={The Kingdoms of Organisms},
  author={Herbert Faulkner Copeland},
  journal={The Quarterly Review of Biology},
  year={1938},
  volume={13},
  pages={383 - 420}
}
  • H. F. Copeland
  • Published 1 December 1938
  • Geology
  • The Quarterly Review of Biology
Sacramento Junior College T HIS paper proposes the recognition of certain groups of living creatures as kingdoms in addition to the two which are conventionally recognized. Revision of the primary classification of organisms is a taxonomic operation, governed by taxonomic principles; it differs from revision of a family or genus only in wider scope. Because of the human need of an arrangement of organisms which will express as fully as possible existing knowledge and opinion concerning them… 

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