| Description |
1 online resource (311 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Species and systematics ; volume 5
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Species and systematics ; v. 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Reflections on the history of systematics / Robert E. Kohler -- Willi Hennig's part in the history of systematics / Michael Schmitt -- Homology as a bridge between evolutionary morphology, developmental evolution, and phylogenetic systematics / Manfred D. Laubichler -- Historical and conceptual perspectives on modern systematics : groups, ranks, and the phylogenetic turn / Andrew Hamilton -- The early cladogenesis of cladistics / Olivier Rieppel -- Cladistics at an earlier time / Gareth Nelson -- Patterson's curse, molecular homology, and the data matrix / David M. Williams and Malte C. Ebach -- History and theory in the development of phylogenetics in botany : toward the future / Brent D. Mishler -- Well-structured biology : numerical taxonomy's epistemic vision for systematics / Beckett Sterner -- A comparison of alternative form-characterization : approaches to the automated identification of biological species / Norman MacLeod -- The new systematics, the new taxonomy, and the future of biodiversity studies / Quentin Wheeler and Andrew Hamilton. |
| Summary |
This title aims to make sense of the rise of phylogenetic systematics - its methods, its objects of study, and its theoretical foundations - with contributions from historians, philosophers, and biologists. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Biology -- Classification -- Philosophy.
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Biology -- Classification. |
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Philosophy. |
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Cladistic analysis.
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Cladistic analysis. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hamilton, Andrew, 1972-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Evolution of phylogenetic systematics. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014] viii, 311 pages : illustrations Species and systematics ; volume 5 9780520276581 (DLC) 2013021973 |
| ISBN |
9780520956759 (e-book) |
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0520956753 (e-book) |
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9780520276581 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520276582 |
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