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1 online resource (xvii, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Systematics Association special volume ; no. 67 |
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Systematics Association special volume ; no. 67.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
Covering historical analyses of the evolution of systematics in the last 100 years, this text covers areas such as the development of the phenetic and cladistic methods of phylogenetic analysis and the associated algorithms; the revived influence of |
| Notes |
Essays from a symposium held within the 3rd Systematics Association Biennial Meeting, September 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Biology -- Classification -- History -- Congresses
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Biology -- classificatio
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Taxonomy.
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Biology
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Electronic book
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Williams, David M. (David Malcolm), 1940-
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Forey, Peter L
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| ISBN |
0203643038 |
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9780203643037 |
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