Phenetics
Channel: Plant Systematics
Date: 2021-01-13

Mean of the term Phenetics 1:18
Important precursors 2:29
What the Pheneticists wanted from their classifications 5:21
Principles of Phenetics 8:00

Seven Fundamental Principles of Phenetics
1. Phenetic classifications have a greater information content 8:49
2. Every character is given equal weight 15:21
3. Overall similarity of taxa is a function of individual similarities 16:15
    Operational Taxonomic Units 26:02
    Character X Taxon matrices 31:41
    Similarity matrix 38:01
    Calculating the similarity matrix 44:32
    Comparison of two methods of calculating similarity matrices 1:06:46
    Dendrograms 1:12:06
4. Distinct taxa are recognized based on correlations of characters 1:23:08
5. Phylogenetic inferences are made a posteriori 1:31:13
6. Taxonomy is an empirical science 1:34:00
7. Classifications are based on phenetic similarity 1:34:26

The treatment of fossils in Phenetics 1:34:57
Summary of Phenetic thought 1:39:54 

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