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The evolution of phylogenetic systematics / edited by Andrew Hamilton.
LIBRA QH83 .E96 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Species and systematics ; v. 5.
- Species and systematics ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cladistic analysis.
- Biology--Classification--Philosophy.
- Biology.
- Biology--Classification.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- The volume aims to make sense of the rise of phylogenetic systematics-its methods, objects of study, and theoretical foundations-with contributions from historians, philosophers, and biologists. The Evolution of Phylogenetic Systematics articulates an intellectual agenda for the study of systematics and taxonomy in a way that connects classification with larger historical themes in the biological sciences, including morphology, experimental and observational approaches, evolution, biogeography, debates over form and function, character transformation, development, and biodiversity. It provides frameworks for answering the question: how did systematics become phylogenetic? Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Reflections on the history of systematics / Robert E. Kohler
- Willi Hennig's part in the history of systematics / Michael Schmitt
- Homology as a bridge between evolutionary morphology, developmental evolution, and phylogenetic systematics / Manfred D. Laubichler
- Historical and conceptual perspectives on modern systematics : groups, ranks, and the phylogenetic turn / Andrew Hamilton
- The early cladogenesis of cladistics / Olivier Rieppel
- Cladistics at an earlier time / Gareth Nelson
- Patterson's curse, molecular homology, and the data matrix / David M. Williams and Malte C. Ebach
- History and theory in the development of phylogenetics in botany : toward the future / Brent D. Mishler
- Well-structured biology : numerical taxonomy's epistemic vision for systematics / Beckett Sterner
- A comparison of alternative form-characterization : approaches to the automated identification of biological species / Norman MacLeod
- The new systematics, the new taxonomy, and the future of biodiversity studies / Quentin Wheeler and Andrew Hamilton.
- Notes:
- Available in 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520276581
- 0520276582
- OCLC:
- 840160951
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