Cladistics: Perspectives on the Reconstruction of Evolutionary History : Papers Presented at a Workshop on the Theory and Application of Cladistic Methodology, March · 22-28, 1981, University of California, Berkeley / Tod F. Stuessy, Thomas Duncan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duncan, Thomas, editor.

Stuessy, Tod F., editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1984]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A collection of papers from a conference on cladistics that present a variety of views on the theory and methods of phylogenetic reconstruction.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Contributors

Introduction

Part I. Philosophical Concerns

1. Cladistic Theory: Hypotheses That Blur and Grow / Hull, David L.

2. The Relevance of Parsimony to Phylogenetic Inference / Kluge, Arnold G.

3. Monophyly: Its Meaning and Importance / Ashlock, Peter D.

Part II. Character Evaluation

4. The Concept of Homology and Its Central Role in the Elucidation of Plant Systematic Relationships / Kaplan, Donald R.

5. Problems in the Determination of Evolutionary Directionality of Character-State Change for Phylogenetic Reconstruction / Stuessy, Tod F. / Crisci, Jorge V.

Part III. Cladogram Construction

Section A. Parsimony Methods

6. Applications of the Concepts of Groundplan-Divergence / Wagner, Warren H.

7. Quantitative Parsimony / Brooks, Daniel R.

Section B. Compatibility Methods

8. Phylogenetic Trees and Character-State Trees / Estabrook, George F.

9. Evaluating Characters by Character Compatibility Analysis / Meacham, Christopher A.

Section C. Comparison of Methods

10. The Statistical Approach to Inferring Evolutionary Trees and What It Tells Us About Parsimony and Compatibility / Felsenstein, Joseph

11. Application of Compatibility and Parsimony Methods at the Infraspecific, Specific, and Generic Levels in Poaceae / Baum, Bernard R.

12. Cladistic and Other Methods: Problems, Pitfalls, and Potentials / Fitch, Walter M.

Part IV. Applications

13. Considerations in Formalizing a Classification / Phillips, Raymond B.

14. Cladistics and Biogeography / Nelson, Gareth

Appendix: An Introduction to Computer-Assisted Cladistic Analysis / Arnold, Richard A. / Duncan, Thomas

Participants in the Workshop on the Theory and Application of Cladistic Methodology

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780231879859

0231879857

OCLC:

1114806693