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Milestones in Systematics
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Presenting a historical analysis of the evolution of systematics during the last one hundred years, Milestones in Systematics reviews many of the major issues in systematic theory and practice that have driven the working methods of systematics during the 20th century and looks at the issues most likely to preoccupy systematists in the immediate fu
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Introduction
- Editors
- Contributors
- Chapter 1: Setting Up Milestones: Sneath On Adanson and Mayr On Darwin
- Chapter 2: Launching the Society of Systematic Zoology In 1947
- Chapter 3: Explanations In Systematics
- Chapter 4: What Happens When the Language of Science Threatens to Break Down In Systematics: A Popperian Perspective
- Chapter 5: Hennig’s Phylogenetic Systematics Brought Up to Date
- Chapter 6: Cladistics: Its Arrested Development
- Chapter 7: Systematics and Paleontology
- Chapter 8: Parsimony and Computers
- Chapter 9: Homologues and Homology, Phenetics and Cladistics: 150 Years of Progress
- Chapter 10: From Dispersal to Geographic Congruence: Comments On Cladistic Biogeography In the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 11: The Fall and Rise of Evolutionary Developmental Biology
- Systematics Association Publications
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