Williams / Forey Milestones in Systematics

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-134-46463-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Systematics Association Special Volumes

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:

§ The development of evolutionary, phenetic and cladistic methods of phylogenetic analysis and the associated computer algorithms

§ The changing influence of paleontological techniques

§ The impact of new molecular data and the relationships between systematics, development, and evolution

The authors stress the importance of understanding the past to make sense of the future. They present a general assessment of comparative biology's recent past and how it has matured and blossomed. Exploring the full impact of the cladistics revolution, a phenomenon that has yet to be fully appreciated, the book provides a platform for further debate and discussion.

Zielgruppe

Students and researchers in evolutionary biology, systematics, paleontology, and the history of science

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, David M.

Forey, Peter L.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Setting Up Milestones: Sneath on Adanson and Mayr on Darwin, M.P. Winsor

Launching the Society of Systematic Zoology in 1947, J. Cain

Explanations in Systematics, W.J. Bock

What Happens When the Language of Science Threatens to Break Down in Systematics - A Popperian Perspective, O. Rieppel

Hennig's 'Phylogenetic Systematics' Brought up to Date, J.-W. Wägele

Cladistics: Its Arrested Development, G. Nelson

Systematics and Paleontology, P.L. Forey

Parsimony and Computer, A.W.F. Edwards

Homologues and Homology, Phenetics and Cladistics: 150 Years of Progress, D.M. Williams

From Dispersal to Geographic Congruence: Comments on Cladistic Biogeography in the 20th Century, C.J. Humphries

The Fall and Rise of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, P.W.H. Holland