Milestones in Systematics

David M. Williams, Peter L. Forey (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

308 Seiten

2004
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-0-415-28032-7 (ISBN)

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Presenting a historical analyses of the evolution of systematics during several years, this book reviews many 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 future.

"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 future.

The book highlights:
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David M. Williams, Peter L. Forey

Introduction. Setting Up Milestones: Sneath on Adanson and Mayr on Darwin. Launching the Society of Systematic Zoology in 1947. Explanations in Systematics. What Happens if the Language of Science Happens to Break Down in Systematics? - A Popperian Perspective. Hennig's Phylogenetic Systematics Bought Up-to-date. The Arrested Development of Cladistics. Systematics and Paleontology. Parsimony and Computers. Homology and Homologues, Cladistics and Phenetics: 100 Years of Progress. From Dispersal to Geographic Congruence: Comments on Cladistic Biogeography in the 20th Century. The Fall and Rise of Evolutionary Developmental Biology.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.5.2004
Zusatzinfo	2 Halftones, black and white; 60 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-415-28032-X / 041528032X
ISBN-13	978-0-415-28032-7 / 9780415280327
Zustand	Neuware