Milestones in systematics / edited by David M. Williams, Peter L. Foley.

Title
  1. Milestones in systematics / edited by David M. Williams, Peter L. Foley.
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  1. Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2004.

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Additional authors
  1. Forey, Peter L.
  2. Williams, D. M.
Description
  1. xvii, 290 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Series statement
  1. Systematics Association special volume series ; no. 67
Uniform title
  1. Systematics Association special volume ; no. 67.
Subject
  1. Biology > Classification > History > Congresses
  2. Biology > classification
  3. Congress
Genre/Form
  1. Congress.
Contents
  1. 1. Setting up milestones : Sneath on Adanson and Mayr on Darwin / Mary P. Winsor -- 2. Launching the society of systematic zoology in 1947 / Joe Cain -- 3. Explanations in systematics / Walter J. Bock -- 4. What happens when the language of science threatens to break down in systematics : a Popperian perspective / Olivier Rieppel -- 5. Hennig's phylogenetic systematics brought up to date / Johann-Wolfgang Wagele -- 6. Cladistics : its arrested development / G. Nelson -- 7. Systematics and paleontology / Peter L. Forey -- 8. Parsimony and computers / A. W. F. Edwards -- 9. Homologues and homology, phenetics and cladistics : 150 years of progress / David M. Williams -- 10. From dispersal to geographic congruence : comments on cladistic biogeography in the twentieth century / Christopher J. Humphries -- 11. The fall and rise of evolutionary developmental biology / Peter W. H. Holland.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Essays from a symposium held within the 3rd Systematics Association Biennial Meeting, September 2001.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.