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J. David Allan, School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan: Lectures Notes, Fall Semester, Introduction To Global Change, Classification and Phylogeny, and The Process of Speciation.

Lonna Beers, Library and Learning Resources Center, Montgomery College, Conroe, Texas: Journey into the World of Cladistics.

Phil Cantino and Gar Rothwell, Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens: PBIO 691 Graduate Seminar Series, Phylogenetic Taxonomy. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to see some of these notes. "Phylogenetic taxonomy" is an alternative system of taxonomy and nomenclature that was first proposed by Kevin de Queiroz and Jacques Gauthier. It differs from the current "Linnaean" system in linking names explicitly to clades rather than to arbitrary ranks such as family and order. Worth checking out: Helpful Background Literature.

Philippe Choler, Laboratoire de Biologie des Populations d'Altitude, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble: Biologie Evolutive Végétale. Concepts and methods in evolutionary biology (in French). Navigate from "Plan du cours" (access to about 335 slides). Go to: La classification des êtres vivants.

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh: Taxonomic Hierarchy.

Niles Eldredge, American Museum of Natural History: Spectrum of Life. 28 major groups of organisms organized into basic divisions of life, explained in a nutshell.

M. Alan Kazlev, Kheper website, Australia: The Classification of Living Organisms. See also: Prokaryotes.

Paul E. Olsen, Matt Gompper, and Kevin Griffin, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia College, Columbia University, Palisades, NY: The Life System Syllabus. The "Life System" component provides an integrated view of the biological component of the Earth system. It emphasizes the history of life, biogeochemical cycles, biodiversity, evolution, ecology, and physiology at the microbe to global scale. It also stresses the biotic systems, in contrast to the physical systems, as maintaining the non-equilibrium state of the Earth's surface. Go to: The Life System: Lecture 2 Species and the Hierarchy of Life.

Peter Ommundsen, Selkirk College, Canada: Pronunciation of Biological Latin. Including taxonomic names of plants and animals.

Dennis O'Neil, Palomar College, San Marcos, California: Classification of Living Things. An Introduction to the Principles of Taxonomy with a Focus on Human Classification Categories. In this tutorial you will be learning about the Linnaean system of classification used in the biological sciences to describe and categorize all living things.

Mark P. Widrlechner, Laura C. Merrick and Donald N. Duvick, Agronomy Department, Iowa State University, Ames: Agronomy 523, Plant Genetic Resource Management. This is a graduate level course designed to impart an understanding and an appreciation of the principles and practices of in situ and ex situ plant genetic resource management. Go to: Plant Systematics and Evolution, Major philosophies of systematics. An Introduction to phenetic ("the organization of data on the basis of similarity for the purpose of obtaining a classification") and phylogenetic systematics ("classification systems which arrange natural groups of plants in an evolutionary sequence proceeding from the simplest to the most complex").