Beyond Cladistics
The Branching of a Paradigm
1st Edition
Published on 28. October 2010
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-520-26772-5 (ISBN)
Description
Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematics - an approach to discovering, unraveling, and testing hypotheses of evolutionary history - took hold during a turbulent and acrimonious time in the history of systematics. During this period - the 1960s and 1970s - much of the foundation of modern systematic methodology was established as cladistic approaches became widely accepted. Virtually complete by the end of the 1980s, the wide perception has been that little has changed. This volume vividly illustrates that cladistic methodologies have continued to be developed, improved upon, and effectively used in ever widening analytically imaginative ways.
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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
14 b-w photographs, 47 line illustrations, 8 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-26772-5 (9780520267725)
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E-Book
10/2010
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
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Persons
David M. Williams and Sandra Knapp are both in the Botany Department at the Natural History Museum of London.
Content
Contributors vii Preface xi PART ONE: ON CHRIS Bibliography of Works by Chris Humphries 1 1 Chris Humphries, Cladistics, and Connections 19 David M. Williams, Kare Bremer, and Sandra Knapp 2 Ontogeny and Systematics Revisited: Developmental Models and Model Organisms 35 Stephen Blackmore and Alexandra H. Wortley 3 Rooted in Cladistics: Chris Humphries, Conservation--and Beyond? 47 Richard I. Vane-Wright 4 Do We Need to Describe, Name, and Classify All Species? 67 Quentin D. Wheeler 5 Floras to Phylogenies: Why Descriptive Taxonomy Matters 77 Sandra Knapp and J. Robert Press PART TWO: BOTANY 6 Island Hot Spots: The Challenge of Climate Change 91 David Bramwell 7 Endemism and Evolution of the Macaronesian Flora 101 Mark A. Carine, Arnoldo Santos Guerra, I. Rosana Guma, and J. Alfredo Reyes-Betancort 8 Early British Collectors and Observers of the Macaronesian Flora: From Sloane to Darwin 125 Javier Francisco-Ortega, Arnoldo Santos-Guerra, Charlie E. Jarvis, Mark A. Carine, Miguel Menezes de Sequeira, and Michael Maunder PART THREE: CLADISTICS 9 Monophyly and the Two Hierarchies 147 Olivier Rieppel 10 Beyond Belief: The Steady Resurrection of Phenetics 169 David M. Williams, Malte C. Ebach, and Quentin D. Wheeler 11 Monographic Effects on the Stratigraphic Distribution of Brachiopods 197 Gordon B. Curry 12 The Eukaryote Tree of Life 219 Diana Lipscomb PART FOUR: BIOGEOGRAPHY 13 Tethys and Teleosts 243 Peter L. Forey 14 East--West Continental Vicariance in Eucalyptus Subgenus Eucalyptus 267 Pauline Y. Ladiges, Michael J. Bayly, and Gareth J. Nelson 15 Wallacea Deconstructed 305 Lynne R. Parenti and Malte C. Ebach Index 321 About the Editors 335