Title: Prospects in systematics /
Authors: Hawksworth, D. L.; Systematics Association.
Date: 1988
Publisher: Published for the Systematics Association by Clarendon Press ;
Physical description: xx, 457 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Contents: Systematics: the keystone of biology / D.L. Hawksworth and F.A. Bisby -- Recent historical developments / E. Mayr -- The structure of systematics / V.H. Heywood -- The impact of evolutionary theories on systematics / C. Patterson -- Species concepts and speciation in parasites / M.F. Claridge -- The detection of phylogeny / J. Felsenstein -- The contribution of palaeontology to systematics and evolution / A. Hallam -- The new genetics / G.A. Dover -- The estimation of protein and nucleic acid homologies / J.P.W. Young -- Isozyme studies and their interpretation / A. Ferguson -- Some implications of the revolution in molecular biology / K.A. Joysey -- Electron microcopy in systematics: genesis and revelations / J.G. Duckett -- Numerical techniques as an aid to objectivity / J.C. Gower -- The phenetic and cladistic approaches / P.H.A. Sneath. Communications in taxonomy / F.A. Bisby -- Automated taxonomic descriptions / L. Watson, M.J. Dallwitz, A.J. Gibbs, and R.J. Pankhurst -- The uses and future of bibliographic database systems / S.G. Dextre Clarke -- Taxonomically intelligent database programs / R. Allkin -- Towards a unified system of biological nomenclature / W.D.L. Ride -- Exploitation of taxonomic databases in selective isolation programmes / R.D. Nolan -- The needs of plant breeding, agriculture, and horticulture for infraspecific classifications / B. Pickersgill -- The demands of medicine and veterinary science / R. Muller and J.R. Baker -- User needs in systematics and obstacles to their fulfilment / P.T. Haskell and P.J. Morgan -- Systematics in the education of biologists / R.J. Berry -- Systematics: the view from the origin and early evolution of life. Secession of the Protoctista from the animal and plant kingdoms / L. Margulis.
Notes: "Proceedings of an international symposium held at the Royal Society, London on 1-3 July 1987 to mark the golden jubilee of the Systematics Association"--Prelim. p.
Subject headings (LCSH): Biology--Classification--Congresses.