Animal Kingdom 2
Content-Intensive Poster
Item: EDU38
In Stock: Yes
24 x 36 in.
$7.95

Our popular Animal Kingdom and Plant Kingdom posters provide
an introduction to the various living species in accordance
with the classification system introduced by Carl Linnaeus
in 1735, which grouped species by phyla, orders and families.
That system has since become obsolete due to the widespread
adoption of the new Cladistics classification system, which
is based on the development of physical characteristics and
arranges organisms by their order of branching in an evolutionary
tree. It has been used in most universities and colleges since
the late 1990s and is now finding it ways into the grade schools.
This new poster shows this new system. Simultaneous with this
revolutionary change in classification systems, many new species
have been discovered. Some have been so unique, that they have
been given their own phylum / clade.


This all-new version includes extinct species. The result is a
comprehensive overview of all life that has lived on Earth.
The number of phyla / clades has jumped from 27 to 41. This new
version shows almost twice as many species. Animal Kingdom 2 has
been closely coordinated with our new Animal Development Poster.
The latter shows the physical changes that have taken place in
animals and the resulting cladistic family tree. Animal Kingdom
then provides the details of each phylum. These changes and
improvements result in a quantum leap presentation.