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.
A collection of papers from a conference on cladistics that present a variety of views on the theory and methods of phylogenetic reconstruction.
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1984] ©1984 |
Year of Publication: | 1984 |
Language: | English |
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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