Milestones in systematics
By: edited by David M. Williams, Peter L. Foley
Contributors: Williams, David M. 1940-; Forey, Peter L; Systematics Association. Meeting
Series: Systematics Association special volume -- no. 67
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Biology -- Classification -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Classification; Congresses
Description: Covering historical analyses of the evolution of systematics in the last 100 years, this text covers areas such as the development of the phenetic and cladistic methods of phylogenetic analysis and the associated algorithms, the impact of new molecular data and more.
Notes: Essays from a symposium held within the 3rd Systematics Association Biennial Meeting, September 2001

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Setting up milestones : Sneath on Adanson and Mayr on Darwin / Mary P. Winsor; title: Launching the Society of Systematic Zoology in 1947 / Joe Cain; title: Explanations in systematics / Walter J. Bock; title: What happens when the language of science threatens to break down in systematics : a Popperian perspective / Olivier Rieppel; title: Hennig's Phylogenetic systematics brought up to date / Johann-Wolfgang Wägele; title: Cladistics : its arrested development / G. Nelson; title: Systematics and paleontology / Peter L. Forey; title: Parsimony and computers / A.W.F. Edwards; title: Homologues and homology, phenetics and cladistics : 150 years of progress / David M. Williams; title: From dispersal to geographic congruence : comments on cladistic biogeography in the twentieth century / Christopher J. Humphries; title: The fall and rise of evolutionary developmental biology / Peter W.H. Holland