Phylogenetic Systematics

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University of Illinois Press, 1999 - 263 стор.
Phylogenetic Systematics, first published in 1966, marks a turning point in the history of systematic biology. Willi Hennig's influential synthetic work, arguing for the primacy of the phylogenetic system as the general reference system in biology, generated significant controversy and opened possibilities for evolutionary biology that are still being explored.

 

Зміст

The Position of Systematics Among the Biological Sciences
8
The Special Tasks of Biological Systematics
8
The Phylogenetic System and Its Position
9
Tasks and Methods of Taxonomy
28
Taxonomic Tasks in the Area of the Lower Categories
29
The allomorphism of species
32
Chorological relationships of individuals and their significance for the taxonomy of lower group categories
46
The species category in the time dimension The species concept and paleontology
56
Taxonomic methods in the higher group categories
83
Problems Tasks and Methods of Phylogenetics
197
Monophyly and polyphyly
206
Dichotomy and radiation
209
Explosive radiation typogenesis and related concepts
216
Phylogenesis and Space
229
Concluding Remarks
234
Bibliography
240

Summary
65
The Taxonomic Task in the Area of the Higher Group Categories
70

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The late Willi Hennig was director of phylongenetic research at the State Museum of Natural Science, Stuttgart. His honors included the Gold Medal of the Linnaean Society and the Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Science of the American Museum of Natural History

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