Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification : : An Interdisciplinary Perspective / / ed. by Henry M. Hoenigswald, Linda F. Wiener.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Cameron, H. Don,; Crane, Peter R.,; Davis, Boyd H.,; Hill, Christopher R.,; Hoenigswald, Henry M.,; Koerner, Konrad,; Morpurgo Davies, Anna,; Novacek, Michael J.,; Oppenheimer, Jane M.,; Percival, W. Keith,; Ruvolo, Maryellen,; Sankoff, David,; Stevens, Peter F.,; Wang, William S.-Y.,; Wells, Rulon S.,; Wiener, Linda F.,
• HerausgeberIn: Hoenigswald, Henry M.,; Wiener, Linda F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.) :; 50 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Preface --; Part One: Historical Perspectives --; 1 Biological Analogy in the Study of Language Before the Advent of Comparative Grammar --; 2 The Life and Growth of Language: Metaphors in Biology and Linguistics --; 3 "Organic" and "Organism" in Franz Bopp --; 4 On Schleicher and Trees --; 5 A Legal Point --; 6 Haeckel's Variations on Darwin --; Part Two: Methodology --; 7 Cladistic and Paleobotanical Approaches to Plant Phylogeny --; 8 Pattern and Process: Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Botany --; 9 Characters and Cladograms: Examples from Zoological Systematics --; 10 Reconstructing Genetic and Linguistic Trees: Phenetic and Cladistic Approaches --; 11 Of Phonetics and Genetics: A Comparison of Classification in Linguistic and Organic Systems --; 12 The Upside-down Cladogram: Problems in Manuscript Affiliation --; 13 Representing Language Relationships --; 14 Language Family Trees, Topological and Metrical --; 15 Computational Complexity and Cladistics --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512802450; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512802450
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Henry M. Hoenigswald, Linda F. Wiener.

The dynamic aspect of biological systems--the birth, growth, and death of individual organisms, the evolution of one form into another over time--has formed the basis for metaphors used in many fields for both artistic and heuristic purposes. Cladistic classification uses a tree whose branch points are based on the possession of derived or relatively recent characteristics, rather than primitive ones.