The Evolution of Phylogenetic Systematics aims to make sense of the rise of phylogenetic systematicsits methods, its objects of study, and its theoretical foundationswith contributions from historians, philosophers, and biologists. This volume articulates an intellectual agenda for the study of systematics and taxonomy in a way that connects classification with larger historical themes in the biological sciences, including morphology, experimental and observational approaches, evolution, biogeography, debates over form and function, character transformation, development, and biodiversity. It aims to provide frameworks for answering the question: how did systematics become phylogenetic?
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"I can recommend this book to all students and reseachers interested in Phylogenetic Systematics." Systematic Biology
List of Contributors Introduction Andrew Hamilton Part One.
Historical Foundations
1. Reflections on the History of Systematics Robert
E. Kohler
2. Willi Hennig's Part in the History of Systematics Michael
Schmitt
3. Homology as a Bridge between Evolutionary Morphology,
Developmental Evolution, and Phylogenetic Systematics Manfred D. Laubichler
Part Two. Conceptual Foundations
4. Historical and Conceptual Perspectives
on Modern Systematics: Groups, Ranks, and the Phylogenetic Turn Andrew
Hamilton
5. The Early Cladogenesis of Cladistics Olivier Rieppel
6.
Cladistics at an Earlier Time Gareth Nelson
7. Patterson's Curse,
Molecular Homology, and the Data Matrix David M. Williams and Malte C. Ebach
8. History and Theory in the Development of Phylogenetics in Botany: Toward
the Future Brent D. Mishler Part Three. Technology, Concepts, and Practice
9. Well-Structured Biology: Numerical Taxonomy's Epistemic Vision for
Systematics Beckett Sterner
10. A Comparison of Alternative
Form-Characterization: Approaches to the Automated Identification of
Biological Species Norman MacLeod
11. The New Systematics, the New
Taxonomy, and the Future of Biodiversity Studies Quentin Wheeler and Andrew
Hamilton Index
Andrew Hamilton is Associate Dean in the Honors College at the University of Houston.
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