County, Los Angeles, CA 90007. specific (ie, phylogenetic) hypotheses, are the products of
nondeductive reasoning. One of the central tenets of nondeductive reasoning is that …

Framing systematics as a field consistent with scientific inquiry entails that inferences of
phylogenetic hypotheses have the goal of producing accounts of past causal events that …

Relating type specimens to morphologically cryptic species is particularly vexing. When type
specimens are small, fragmentary and sterile, resolution can seem intractable. In this study …

The practice of partitioning data for the inferences of phylogenetic hypotheses has become a
routine practice in biological systematics. Two popular approaches:(i) mapping' …

Surveys during the summer of 2004 and August 2009 on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska,
USA resulted in collection of 1064 adult spiders representing 84 species. Barcoding of …

'Species' are often treated as existing only at a single specific time slice. In fact, they are
timely limited entities with a beginning, a time of persistence and an end, the consequences …

Ornamentula Kisielewski, 1991 is a monospecific genus in Order Chaetonotida. The sole
species, O. paraensis Kisielewsk, 1991, is a semiplanktonic gastrotrich found in a single …

Character loss, as opposed to absence, in the Annelida is regarded by Bleidorn (2007,
Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 45, 299–307) as a problem …

The popular defense of intelligent design/creationism (ID) theories, as well as theories in
evolutionary biology, especially from the perspective that both are worthy of scientific …

Sabellidae se caracteriza por agrupar a gusanos tubícolas con un prostomio modificado en
forma de corona radiolar y constituyen una de las familias más vistosas (Fig. 1) …