The Evolution of Phylogenetic Systematics
( Species and Systematics )
Publication series ：Species and Systematics
Author： Hamilton> Andrew
Publisher： University Of California Press
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9780520956759
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520276581
Subject： Q19 biological systematics
Keyword： 普通生物学
Language： ENG
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Description
The Evolution of Phylogenetic Systematics aims to make sense of the rise of phylogenetic systematics—its methods, its objects of study, and its theoretical foundations—with contributions from historians, philosophers, and biologists. This volume articulates an intellectual agenda for the study of systematics and taxonomy in a way that connects classification with larger historical themes in the biological sciences, including morphology, experimental and observational approaches, evolution, biogeography, debates over form and function, character transformation, development, and biodiversity. It aims to provide frameworks for answering the question: how did systematics become phylogenetic?