The Evolution of Phylogenetic Systematics
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 9. November 2013
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-520-27658-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Evolution of Phylogenetic Systematics aims to make sense of the rise of phylogenetic systematics - its methods, its objects of study, and its theoretical foundations - with contributions from historians, philosophers, and biologists. This volume 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 aims to provide frameworks for answering the question: how did systematics become phylogenetic?
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Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
11 b-w photographs, 21 line illustrations, 7 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-27658-1 (9780520276581)
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Andrew Hamilton
The Evolution of Phylogenetic Systematics
E-Book
11/2013
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€63.49
Available for download
Person
Andrew Hamilton is Associate Dean in the Honors College at the University of Houston.
Content
List of Contributors Introduction Andrew Hamilton Part One. Historical Foundations 1. Reflections on the History of Systematics Robert E. Kohler 2. Willi Hennig's Part in the History of Systematics Michael Schmitt 3. Homology as a Bridge between Evolutionary Morphology, Developmental Evolution, and Phylogenetic Systematics Manfred D. Laubichler Part Two. Conceptual Foundations 4. Historical and Conceptual Perspectives on Modern Systematics: Groups, Ranks, and the Phylogenetic Turn Andrew Hamilton 5. The Early Cladogenesis of Cladistics Olivier Rieppel 6. Cladistics at an Earlier Time Gareth Nelson 7. Patterson's Curse, Molecular Homology, and the Data Matrix David M. Williams and Malte C. Ebach 8. History and Theory in the Development of Phylogenetics in Botany: Toward the Future Brent D. Mishler Part Three. Technology, Concepts, and Practice 9. Well-Structured Biology: Numerical Taxonomy's Epistemic Vision for Systematics Beckett Sterner 10. A Comparison of Alternative Form-Characterization: Approaches to the Automated Identification of Biological Species Norman MacLeod 11. The New Systematics, the New Taxonomy, and the Future of Biodiversity Studies Quentin Wheeler and Andrew Hamilton Index