Milestones in systematics
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CRC Press,
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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. |