Excerpt from Ten Million Aliens by Simon Barnes, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

* In this book I'm modestly restricting myself to the Animal Kingdom. In Britain four other kingdoms are traditionally recognised: Plantae, Fungi, Protoctista and Prokaryota/Monera. In the United States they prefer six: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea and Bacteria.

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