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.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• 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.)

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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. Philosophical Concerns -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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