The decline in morphological phylogenies has become a pronounced trend in contemporary
systematics due to a disregard for theoretical, methodological, conceptual, and …

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 …

How morphology and systematics come together through morphological analysis, homology
hypotheses and phylogenetic analysis is a topic of continuing debate. Some contemporary …

In the field of phylogenetic systematics, the terms homology and homologue and their
relationship to cladistic terms such as character, character state, synapomorphy and …

Organismic and morphological approaches to biology have lately come under attack from a
variety of corners in both teaching and research. However, the main moti-vations for these …

Phylogenetic taxonomy, like modern Linnean taxonomy, was modeled on a phylogenetic
tree rather than a cladogram and, like its predecessor, perpetuates the use of morphology as …

Systematic techniques may be viewed as symbolic languages which have both surface
structure (measures of descriptive adequacy) and deep structure (measures of explanatory …

Cladistic mechanics and ramifications of various species concepts rooted in phylogenetic
theory are explored. Published discussions of the phylogenetic species concept (PSC) have …

In this volume, eleven leading systematists provide an overview of recent advances and
controversies in morphological phylogenetics. They summarize new methodological …

The theory and practice of contemporary comparative biology and phylogeny reconstruction
(systematics) emphasizes algorithmic aspects but neglects a concern for the evidence. The …