This new edition of a foundational text presents a current review of cladistics, as applied to biological classification. It covers cladistics in the era of molecular data, with practical examples and diagrams. An accessible guide for students and researchers in taxonomy, systematics, comparative biology, evolutionary biology and molecular biology.
This new edition of a foundational text presents a current review of cladistics, as applied to biological classification. It covers cladistics in the era of molecular data, with practical examples and diagrams. An accessible guide for students and researchers in taxonomy, systematics, comparative biology, evolutionary biology and molecular biology.
David M. Williams is a researcher at the Natural History Museum, London, specializing in diatom (Bacillariophyta) taxonomy and biogeography. He is the current president of the Systematics Association, London. He has written over 240 scientific papers and ten books.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. The Interrelationships of Organisms: 1. What this book is about 2. Classification Part II. Systematics: Exposing Myths: 3. Relationship diagrams 4. Essentialism and typology 5. Monothetic and polythetic taxa 6. Non-taxa or the absence of -phyly: paraphyly and aphyly Part III. The Cladistic Programme: 7. Parameters of classification: ordo ab chao Part IV. How to Study Classification: 8. Modern artificial methods and raw data 9. How to study classification: consensus techniques and general classifications 10. How to study classification - 'total evidence' vs 'consensus', character congruence vs taxonomic congruence, simultaneous analysis vs partitioned data 11. How to study classification: natural methods I - consensus revisited 12. How to study classification: natural methods II - beyond method, the philosophy of three-item analysis Part V. Beyond Classification: 13. Beyond classification: how to study phylogeny 14. The separation of classification and phylogenetics 15. Further myths and misunderstandings.
Part I. The Interrelationships of Organisms: 1. What this book is about 2. Classification Part II. Systematics: Exposing Myths: 3. Relationship diagrams 4. Essentialism and typology 5. Monothetic and polythetic taxa 6. Non-taxa or the absence of -phyly: paraphyly and aphyly Part III. The Cladistic Programme: 7. Parameters of classification: ordo ab chao Part IV. How to Study Classification: 8. Modern artificial methods and raw data 9. How to study classification: consensus techniques and general classifications 10. How to study classification - 'total evidence' vs 'consensus', character congruence vs taxonomic congruence, simultaneous analysis vs partitioned data 11. How to study classification: natural methods I - consensus revisited 12. How to study classification: natural methods II - beyond method, the philosophy of three-item analysis Part V. Beyond Classification: 13. Beyond classification: how to study phylogeny 14. The separation of classification and phylogenetics 15. Further myths and misunderstandings.
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