Cladistics: Perspectives on the Reconstruction of Evolutionary History : : Papers Presented at a Workshop on the Theory and Application of Cladistic Methodology, March · 22–28, 1981, University of California, Berkeley / / ed. by Tod F. Stuessy, Thomas Duncan.

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• MitwirkendeR: Arnold, Richard A.,; Ashlock, Peter D.,; Baum, Bernard R.,; Brooks, Daniel R.,; Crisci, Jorge V.,; Duncan, Thomas,; Estabrook, George F.,; Felsenstein, Joseph,; Fitch, Walter M.,; Hull, David L.,; Kaplan, Donald R.,; Kluge, Arnold G.,; Meacham, Christopher A.,; Nelson, Gareth,; Phillips, Raymond B.,; Stuessy, Tod F.,; Wagner, Warren H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Duncan, Thomas,; Stuessy, Tod F.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1984]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 1984
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Contributors --; Introduction --; Part I. Philosophical Concerns --; 1. Cladistic Theory: Hypotheses That Blur and Grow --; 2. The Relevance of Parsimony to Phylogenetic Inference --; 3. Monophyly: Its Meaning and Importance --; Part II. Character Evaluation --; 4. The Concept of Homology and Its Central Role in the Elucidation of Plant Systematic Relationships --; 5. Problems in the Determination of Evolutionary Directionality of Character-State Change for Phylogenetic Reconstruction --; Part III. Cladogram Construction --; Section A. Parsimony Methods --; 6. Applications of the Concepts of Groundplan-Divergence --; 7. Quantitative Parsimony --; Section B. Compatibility Methods --; 8. Phylogenetic Trees and Character-State Trees --; 9. Evaluating Characters by Character Compatibility Analysis --; Section C. Comparison of Methods --; 10. The Statistical Approach to Inferring Evolutionary Trees and What It Tells Us About Parsimony and Compatibility --; 11. Application of Compatibility and Parsimony Methods at the Infraspecific, Specific, and Generic Levels in Poaceae --; 12. Cladistic and Other Methods: Problems, Pitfalls, and Potentials --; Part IV. Applications --; 13. Considerations in Formalizing a Classification --; 14. Cladistics and Biogeography --; Appendix: An Introduction to Computer-Assisted Cladistic Analysis --; Participants in the Workshop on the Theory and Application of Cladistic Methodology --; Author Index --; Subject Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231879859; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/dunc90660
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Tod F. Stuessy, Thomas Duncan.

A collection of papers from a conference on cladistics that present a variety of views on the theory and methods of phylogenetic reconstruction.