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Title Beyond cladistics : the branching of a paradigm / edited by David M. Williams and Sandra Knapp.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 333 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Species and systematics ; v. 3
Species and systematics ; v. 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Chris Humphries, cladistics, and connections / David M. Williams, Kåre Bremer, and Sandra Knapp -- Ontogeny and systematics revisited : developmental models and model organisms / Stephen Blackmore and Alexandra H. Wortley -- Rooted in cladistics : Chris Humphries, conservation--and beyond? / Richard I. Vane-Wright -- Do we need to describe, name, and classify all species? / Quentin D. Wheeler -- Floras to phylogenies : why descriptive taxonomy matters / Sandra Knapp and J. Robert Press -- Island hot spots : the challenge of climate change / David Bramwell -- Endemism and evolution of the Macaronesian flora / Mark A. Carine, Arnoldo Santos-Guerra, I. Rosana Guma, and J. Alfredo Reyes-Betancort -- Early British collectors and observers of the Macaronesian flora : from Sloane to Darwin / Javier Francisco-Ortega, Arnoldo Santos-Guerra, Charlie E. Jarvis, Mark A. Carine, Miguel Menezes de Sequeira, and Mike Maunder -- Monophyly and the two hierarchies / Olivier Rieppel -- Beyond belief : the steady resurrection of phenetics / David M. Williams, Malte C. Ebach, and Quentin D. Wheeler -- Monographic effects on the stratigraphic distribution of brachiopods / Gordon B. Curry -- The eukaryote tree of life / Diana Lipscomb -- Tethys and teleosts / Peter L. Forey -- East-west continental vicariance in Eucalyptus subgenus Eucalyptus / Pauline Y. Ladiges, Michael J. Bayly, and Gareth J. Nelson -- Wallacea deconstructed / Lynne R. Parenti and Malte C. Ebach.
Summary Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematics took hold during a turbulent and acrimonious time in the history of systematics. This volume illustrates that cladistic methodologies have continued to be developed, improved upon, and effectively used in widening analytically imaginative ways.
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Subject Cladistic analysis.
Cladistic analysis.
Biogeography.
Biogeography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Williams, David M. (David Mervyn), 1954-
Knapp, Sandra.
Other Form: Print version: Beyond cladistics. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520267725 (DLC) 2010010575 (OCoLC)593622713
ISBN 9780520947993 (electronic book)
0520947991 (electronic book)
9780520267725
0520267729