Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematics - an approach to discovering, unraveling, and testing hypotheses of evolutionary history - took hold during a turbulent and acrimonious time in the history of systematics. During this period - the 1960s and 1970s - much of the foundation of modern systematic methodology was established as cladistic approaches became widely accepted. Virtually complete by the end of the 1980s, the wide perception has been that little has changed. This volume vividly illustrates that cladistic methodologies have continued to be developed, improved upon, and effectively used in ever widening analytically imaginative ways.
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Contributors vii Preface xi PART ONE: ON CHRIS Bibliography of Works by
Chris Humphries 1 1 Chris Humphries, Cladistics, and Connections 19 David M.
Williams, Kare Bremer, and Sandra Knapp 2 Ontogeny and Systematics
Revisited: Developmental Models and Model Organisms 35 Stephen Blackmore and
Alexandra H. Wortley 3 Rooted in Cladistics: Chris Humphries,
Conservation--and Beyond? 47 Richard I. Vane-Wright 4 Do We Need to
Describe, Name, and Classify All Species? 67 Quentin D. Wheeler 5 Floras to
Phylogenies: Why Descriptive Taxonomy Matters 77 Sandra Knapp and J. Robert
Press PART TWO: BOTANY 6 Island Hot Spots: The Challenge of Climate Change
91 David Bramwell 7 Endemism and Evolution of the Macaronesian Flora 101
Mark A. Carine, Arnoldo Santos Guerra, I. Rosana Guma, and J. Alfredo
Reyes-Betancort 8 Early British Collectors and Observers of the Macaronesian
Flora: From Sloane to Darwin 125 Javier Francisco-Ortega, Arnoldo
Santos-Guerra, Charlie E. Jarvis, Mark A. Carine, Miguel Menezes de Sequeira,
and Michael Maunder PART THREE: CLADISTICS 9 Monophyly and the Two
Hierarchies 147 Olivier Rieppel 10 Beyond Belief: The Steady Resurrection of
Phenetics 169 David M. Williams, Malte C. Ebach, and Quentin D. Wheeler 11
Monographic Effects on the Stratigraphic Distribution of Brachiopods 197
Gordon B. Curry 12 The Eukaryote Tree of Life 219 Diana Lipscomb PART FOUR:
BIOGEOGRAPHY 13 Tethys and Teleosts 243 Peter L. Forey 14 East--West
Continental Vicariance in Eucalyptus Subgenus Eucalyptus 267 Pauline Y.
Ladiges, Michael J. Bayly, and Gareth J. Nelson 15 Wallacea Deconstructed
305 Lynne R. Parenti and Malte C. Ebach Index 321 About the Editors 335
David M. Williams and Sandra Knapp are both in the Botany Department at the Natural History Museum of London.
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