Beyond Cladistics: The Branching of a Paradigm
David M. Williams, "Beyond Cladistics: The Branching of a Paradigm "
English | ISBN: 0520267729 | 2010 | 352 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 0520267729 | 2010 | 352 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematicsan approach to discovering, unraveling, and testing hypotheses of evolutionary historytook hold during a turbulent and acrimonious time in the history of systematics. During this periodthe 1960s and 1970smuch of the foundation of modern systematic methodology was established as cladistic approaches became widely accepted. Virtually complete by the end of the 1980s, the wide perception has been that little has changed. This volume vividly illustrates that cladistic methodologies have continued to be developed, improved upon, and effectively used in ever widening analytically imaginative ways.