Biochemical Systematics
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| Author | : Alessandro Minelli |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 397 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9401196435 |
To some potential readers of this book the description of Biological System atics as an art may seem outdated and frankly wrong. For most people art is subjective and unconstrained by universal laws. While one picture, play or poem may be internally consistent comparison between different art products is meaningless except by way of the individual artists. On the other hand modern Biological Systematics - particularly phenetics and cladistics - is offered as objective and ultimately governed by universal laws. This implies that classifications of different groups of organisms, being the products of systematics, should be comparable irrespective of authorship. Throughout this book Minelli justifies his title by developing the theme that biological classifications are, in fact, very unequal in their expressions of the pattern and processes of the natural world. Specialists are imbibed with their own groups and tend to establish a consensus of what constitutes a species or a genus, or whether it should be desirable to recognize sub species, cultivars etc. Ornithologists freely recognize subspecies and rarely do bird genera contain more than 10 species. On the other hand some coleopterists and botanists work with genera with over 1500 species. This asymmetry may reflect a biological reality; it may express a working practicality, or simply an historical artefact (older erected genera often contain more species). Rarely are these phenomena questioned.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 796 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Biochemical variation |
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| Author | : Andrew Ferguson |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Andrew V. Z. Brower |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 2021-03-15 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1501752790 |
Understanding the history and philosophy of biological systematics (phylogenetics, taxonomy and classification of living things) is key to successful practice of the discipline. In this thoroughly revised Third Edition of the classic Biological Systematics, Andrew V. Z. Brower and Randall T. Schuh provide an updated account of cladistic principles and techniques, emphasizing their empirical and epistemological clarity. Brower and Schuh cover: -the history and philosophy of systematics -the mechanics and methods of character analysis, phylogenetic inference, and evaluation of results -the practical application of systematic results to: -biological classification -adaptation and coevolution -biodiversity, and conservation -new chapters on species and molecular clocks Biological Systematics is both a textbook for students studying systematic biology and a desk reference for practicing systematists. Part explication of concepts and methods, part exploration of the underlying epistemology of systematics, This third edition addresses why some methods are more empirically sound than others.
| Author | : Igor Pavlinov |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2021-03-25 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1000364275 |
This volume reviews the historical roots and theoretical foundations of biological systematics in an approachable text. The author outlines the structure and main tasks of systematics. Conceptual history is characterized as a succession of scientific revolutions. The philosophical foundations of systematic research are briefly reviewed as well as the structure and content of taxonomic theories. Most important research programs in systematics are outlined. The book includes analysis of the principal problematic issues as "scientific puzzles" in systematics. This volume is intended for professional taxonomists, biologists of various specialties, students, as well as all those interested in the history and theory of biology and natural sciences. Key Features Considers the conceptual history of systematics as the framework of evolutionary epistemology Builds a hierarchically organized quasi-axiomatic system of taxonomic theory Contends that more reductionist taxonomic concepts are less objective Supports taxonomic pluralism by non-classic philosophy of science as a normal condition of systematics Documents that "taxonomic puzzles" result from conflict between monistic and pluralistic attitudes Related Titles de Queiroz, K. et al., eds. Phylonyms: A Companion to the PhyloCode (ISBN 978-1-1383-3293-5) Sigwart, J. D. What Species Mean: A User's Guide to the Units of Biodiversity (ISBN 978-1-4987-9937-9) Rieppel, O. Phylogenetic Systematics: Haeckel to Hennig (ISBN 978-1-4987-5488-0) Wilkins, J. S. Species: The Evolution of the Idea, 2nd ed. (ISBN 978-1-1380-5574-2)
| Author | : Peter F. Stevens |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 660 |
| Release | : 1994-12-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780231515085 |
A reevaluation of the history of biological systematics that discusses the formative years of the so-called natural system of classification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows how classifications came to be treated as conventions; systematic practice was not linked to clearly articulated theory; there was general confusion over the "shape" of nature; botany, elements of natural history, and systematics were conflated; and systematics took a position near the bottom of the hierarchy of sciences.
| Author | : Herbert Holdsworth Ross |
| Publisher | : Addison Wesley Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : |
SYSTEMATICS AND ITS DEVELOPMENT; INVESTIGATING SYSTEMATIC PROBLEMS; THE MATERIAL BASSIC OF SYSTEMATICS; SCIENTIFIC REASONING IN SYSTEMATICS; THE BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES OF SPECIATION; THE INTERPRETATION OF CONTEMPORANEOUS SPECIES; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGENY, FOSSILS, AND TIME; GEOGRAPHIC DISPERSAL; PATHWAYS OF ECOLOGICAL DIVERSIFICATIONS; CLASSIFICATION; THE FUTURE OF SYSTEMATICS.
| Author | : Michael G. Simpson |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 774 |
| Release | : 2019-11-14 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0128126280 |
Plant Systematics, Third Edition, has made substantial contributions to plant systematics courses at the upper-undergraduate and first year graduate level, with the first edition winning The New York Botanical Garden's Henry Allan Gleason Award for outstanding recent publication in plant taxonomy, plant ecology or plant geography. This third edition continues to provide the basis for teaching an introduction to the morphology, evolution and classification of land plants. A foundation of the approach, methods, research goals, evidence and terminology of plant systematics are presented, along with the most recent knowledge of evolutionary relationships of plants and practical information vital to the field. In this new edition, the author includes greatly expanded treatments on families of flowering plants, as well as tropical trees (all with full-color plates), and an updated explanation of maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference algorithms. Chapters on morphology and plant nomenclature have also been enhanced with new material.
| Author | : National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1170 |
| Release | : 1971 |
| Genre | : Medicine |
| ISBN | : |
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
| Author | : Douglas E. Soltis |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9400918402 |
