Overview
Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematics - an approach to discovering, unraveling, and testing hypotheses of evolutionary history - took hold during a turbulent and acrimonious time in the history of systematics. During this period - the 1960s and 1970s - much of the foundation of modern systematic methodology was established as cladistic approaches became widely accepted. Virtually complete by the end of the 1980s, the wide perception has been that little has changed. This volume vividly illustrates that cladistic methodologies have continued to be developed, improved upon, and effectively used in ever widening analytically imaginative ways.
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Author: David M. Williams , Sandra Knapp
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Volume: 3
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.503kg
ISBN: 9780520267725
ISBN 10: 0520267729
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 28 October 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
Contributors vii Preface xi PART ONE: ON CHRIS Bibliography of Works by Chris Humphries 1 1 Chris Humphries, Cladistics, and Connections 19 David M. Williams, Kare Bremer, and Sandra Knapp 2 Ontogeny and Systematics Revisited: Developmental Models and Model Organisms 35 Stephen Blackmore and Alexandra H. Wortley 3 Rooted in Cladistics: Chris Humphries, Conservation--and Beyond? 47 Richard I. Vane-Wright 4 Do We Need to Describe, Name, and Classify All Species? 67 Quentin D. Wheeler 5 Floras to Phylogenies: Why Descriptive Taxonomy Matters 77 Sandra Knapp and J. Robert Press PART TWO: BOTANY 6 Island Hot Spots: The Challenge of Climate Change 91 David Bramwell 7 Endemism and Evolution of the Macaronesian Flora 101 Mark A. Carine, Arnoldo Santos Guerra, I. Rosana Guma, and J. Alfredo Reyes-Betancort 8 Early British Collectors and Observers of the Macaronesian Flora: From Sloane to Darwin 125 Javier Francisco-Ortega, Arnoldo Santos-Guerra, Charlie E. Jarvis, Mark A. Carine, Miguel Menezes de Sequeira, and Michael Maunder PART THREE: CLADISTICS 9 Monophyly and the Two Hierarchies 147 Olivier Rieppel 10 Beyond Belief: The Steady Resurrection of Phenetics 169 David M. Williams, Malte C. Ebach, and Quentin D. Wheeler 11 Monographic Effects on the Stratigraphic Distribution of Brachiopods 197 Gordon B. Curry 12 The Eukaryote Tree of Life 219 Diana Lipscomb PART FOUR: BIOGEOGRAPHY 13 Tethys and Teleosts 243 Peter L. Forey 14 East--West Continental Vicariance in Eucalyptus Subgenus Eucalyptus 267 Pauline Y. Ladiges, Michael J. Bayly, and Gareth J. Nelson 15 Wallacea Deconstructed 305 Lynne R. Parenti and Malte C. Ebach Index 321 About the Editors 335
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David M. Williams and Sandra Knapp are both in the Botany Department at the Natural History Museum of London.
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