Milestones in systematics

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Group Author: Williams David M.; (David Malcolm), 1940-; Forey Peter L.
Published: CRC Press,
Publisher Address: Boca Raton
Publication Dates: c2004.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: The Systematics Association special volume series ; no. 67
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Carrier Form: xvii, 290 p.: ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 041528032X (alk. paper)
Index Number: Q19
CLC: Q19-532
Call Number: Q19-532/M643/2001
Contents: Essays from a symposium held within the 3rd Systematics Association Biennial Meeting, September 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting up milestones : Sneath on Adanson and Mayr on Darwin / Mary P. Winsor -- Launching the Society of Systematic Zoology in 1947 / Joe Cain -- Explanations in systematics / Walter J. Bock -- What happens when the language of science threatens to break down in systematics : a Popperian perspective / Olivier Rieppel -- Hennig's Phylogenetic systematics brought up to date / Johann-Wolfgang Wägele -- Cladistics : its arrested development / G. Nelson -- Systematics and paleontology / Peter L. Forey -- Parsimony and computers / A.W.F. Edwards -- Homologues and homology, phenetics and cladistics : 150 years of progress / David M. Williams -- From dispersal to geographic congruence : comments on cladistic biogeography in the twentieth century / Christopher J. Humphries -- The fall and rise of evolutionary developmental biology / Peter W.H. Holland.