The Evolution of Phylogenetic Systematics

✍ Scribed by Andrew Hamilton (ed.)

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Series: Species and Systematics 5
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Evolution of Phylogenetic Systematics aims to make sense of the rise of phylogenetic systematics—its methods, its objects of study, and its theoretical foundations—with contributions from historians, philosophers, and biologists. This volume articulates an intellectual agenda for the study of systematics and taxonomy in a way that connects classification with larger historical themes in the biological sciences, including morphology, experimental and observational approaches, evolution, biogeography, debates over form and function, character transformation, development, and biodiversity. It aims to provide frameworks for answering the question: how did systematics become phylogenetic?

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
Andrew Hamilton

Part One. Historical Foundations
1. Reflections on the History of Systematics
Robert E. Kohler

1. Willi Hennig’s Part in the History of Systematics
   Michael Schmitt

2. Homology as a Bridge between Evolutionary Morphology, Developmental Evolution, and Phylogenetic Systematics
   Manfred D. Laubichler

Part Two. Conceptual Foundations
4. Historical and Conceptual Perspectives on Modern Systematics: Groups, Ranks, and the Phylogenetic Turn
Andrew Hamilton

1. The Early Cladogenesis of Cladistics
   Olivier Rieppel

2. Cladistics at an Earlier Time
   Gareth Nelson

3. Patterson’s Curse, Molecular Homology, and the Data Matrix
   David M. Williams and Malte C. Ebach

4. History and Theory in the Development of Phylogenetics in Botany: Toward the Future
   Brent D. Mishler

Part Three. Technology, Concepts, and Practice
9. Well-Structured Biology: Numerical Taxonomy’s Epistemic Vision for Systematics
Beckett Sterner

1. A Comparison of Alternative Form-Characterization: Approaches to the Automated Identification of Biological Species
   Norman MacLeod

2. The New Systematics, the New Taxonomy, and the Future of Biodiversity Studies
   Quentin Wheeler and Andrew Hamilton

Index