Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification
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Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

  1. 294 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

About this book

The dynamic aspect of biological systemsā€”the birth, growth, and death of individual organisms, the evolution of one form into another over timeā€”has formed the basis for metaphors used in many fields for both artistic and heuristic purposes. Cladistic classification uses a tree whose branch points are based on the possession of derived or relatively recent characteristics, rather than primitive ones.

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Yes, you can access Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification by Henry M. Hoenigswald, Linda F. Wiener, Henry M. Hoenigswald,Linda F. Wiener in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Historiography. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Contributors
  3. Preface
  4. Part One: Historical Perspectives
  5. 1 Biological Analogy in the Study of Language Before the Advent of Comparative Grammar
  6. 2 The Life and Growth of Language: Metaphors in Biology and Linguistics
  7. 3 ā€œOrganicā€ and ā€œOrganismā€ in Franz Bopp
  8. 4 On Schleicher and Trees
  9. 5 A Legal Point
  10. 6 Haeckel's Variations on Darwin
  11. Part Two: Methodology
  12. 7 Cladistic and Paleobotanical Approaches to Plant Phylogeny
  13. 8 Pattern and Process: Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Botany
  14. 9 Characters and Cladograms: Examples from Zoological Systematics
  15. 10 Reconstructing Genetic and Linguistic Trees: Phenetic and Cladistic Approaches
  16. 11 Of Phonetics and Genetics: A Comparison of Classification in Linguistic and Organic Systems
  17. 12 The Upside-down Cladogram: Problems in Manuscript Affiliation
  18. 13 Representing Language Relationships
  19. 14 Language Family Trees, Topological and Metrical
  20. 15 Computational Complexity and Cladistics
  21. Index