Homology and Systematics
Subtitle: Coding Characters for Phylogenetic Analysis (Systematics Association Special Volume)
Contributors: Robert Scotland (Editor); R. Toby Pennington (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: February 24, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780748409204
Subjects: Taxonomy & systematics; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Evolution; Science; System Theory; Science / Evolution; Homology (Biology); Cladistic analysis; Methodology
First sentence: In 1995, Sneath published an account of the struggle between alternative schools of systematic inference, arguing that Hennigian phylogenetics was effectively dead and that 'numerical taxonomy' had finally triumphed in the war of opposing methodologies.