Milestones in Systematics
by
 
Williams, David M., editor.

Title
Milestones in Systematics

Author
Williams, David M., editor.

ISBN
9780429212383

Edition
First edition.

Physical Description
1 online resource (312 pages)

Contents
Setting Up Milestones: Sneath on Adanson and Mayr on Darwin, M.P. Winsor -- Launching the Society of Systematic Zoology in 1947, J. Cain -- Explanations in Systematics, W.J. Bock -- What Happens When the Language of Science Threatens to Break Down in Systematics - A Popperian Perspective, O. Rieppel -- Hennig's 'Phylogenetic Systematics' Brought up to Date, J.-W. Wägele -- Cladistics: Its Arrested Development, G. Nelson -- Systematics and Paleontology, P.L. Forey -- Parsimony and Computer, A.W.F. Edwards -- Homologues and Homology, Phenetics and Cladistics: 150 Years of Progress, D.M. Williams -- From Dispersal to Geographic Congruence: Comments on Cladistic Biogeography in the 20th Century, C.J. Humphries -- The Fall and Rise of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, P.W.H. Holland.

Abstract
Presenting a historical analysis of the evolution of systematics during the last one hundred years, Milestones in Systematics reviews many of the major issues in systematic theory and practice that have driven the working methods of systematics during the 20th century and looks at the issues most likely to preoccupy systematists in the immediate fu.

Subject Term
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany.
 
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.
 
Biology -- classificatio.
 
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Taxonomy.
 
Biology.

Genre
Electronic books.

Added Author
Williams, David M.,
 
Forey, Peter L.,

Added Corporate Author
Taylor and Francis.

Electronic Access
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Online LibraryE-Book540274-1001QH83CRC E-Books