Known as shovel head worms, members of Magelonidae comprise a group of polychaetes
readily recognised by the uniquely shaped, dorso-ventrally flattened prostomium and paired …

1. Introduction “... it follows that we should not regard the organism or the individual (not to
speak of the species) as the ultimate element of the biological system. Rather it should be …

Die vorliegende, leicht überarbeitete Publikation wurde im Wintersemester 2013/2014 als
Habilitationsschrift von der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Wien …

The emphasis on testing phylogenetic hypotheses has been prominent since the English
language introductions of Willi Hennig's Phylogenetic Systematics (1966) and Karl Popper's …

Abstract Ernst Mayr's (1961, Science 131: 1501–1506) distinction between proximate and
ultimate causation in biology is examined with regard to the acquisition of understanding in …

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 …

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

The question,'What are species?', has had a long history in biological systematics with no
success at achieving a scientifically viable consensus. This failure is due in large part to the …

This opinion paper examines the recent proposal for a new nomenclatural code for
prokaryotes (SeqCode). It addresses four problematic issues:(1) epistemological—failure of …

Abstract Crother and Murray (Cladistics 31: 573–574, 2015) criticize the statement by Assis
(Cladistics 30: 240–242, 2014) that phylogenetic hypotheses are amenable to testing but not …