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Title

Phylogenetic systematics / Willi Hennig ; translated by D. Dwight Davis and Rainer Zangerl ; forward by Donn E. Rosen, Gareth Nelson, and Colin Patterson.

Author

Hennig, Willi, 1913-1976

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1999, c1979.

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Additional Authors

• Davis, D. Dwight (Delbert Dwight), 1908-1965
• Zangerl, Rainer, 1912-2004

Description

xiii, 263 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"Phylogenetic Systematics, first published in 1966, marks a turning point in the history of systematic biology. Willi Hennig's influential synthetic work, arguing for the primary of the phylogenetic system as the general reference system in biology, generated significant controversy and opened possibilities for evolutionary biology that are still being explored."--Jacket.

Subject

• Zoology > classification
• Animals > Classification
• Cladistic analysis
• Phylogeny

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Note

• "This book is not a translation of Hennig's Grundzþuge einer Theorie der phylogenetischen Systematik (1950)"--Pref.
• "Illinois reissue, 1999"--T.P. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-251) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• I. The Position of Systematics Among the Biological Sciences. General Concept of Systematics. The Special Tasks of Biological Systematics. The Phylogenetic System and Its Position Among the Possible and Necessary Systems in Biology -- II. Tasks and Methods of Taxonomy. Taxonomic Tasks in the Area of the Lower Categories. Comparative holomorphology as an auxiliary science of taxonomy: The allomorphism of species. Chorological relationships of individuals and their significance for the taxonomy of lower group categories. The species category in the time dimension. The species concept and paleontology. Summary. The Taxonomic Task in the Area of the Higher Group Categories. The mode of origin of higher taxa and the question of their real existence. Taxonomic methods in the higher group categories -- III. Problems, Tasks, and Methods of Phylogenetics. General. The concepts of evolution and phylogenesis. Monophyly and polyphyly. Dicholomy and radiation.
• Explosive radiation, typogenesis, and related concepts. Phylogenesis and Space -- IV. Concluding Remarks.

ISBN

0252068149

OCLC

• 43943119
• SCSB-14235452

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library