Beyond Cladistics: The Branching of a Paradigm
David M. Williams and Sandra Knapp
Abstract
Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematics — an approach to discovering, unraveling, and testing hypotheses of evolutionary history — took hold during a turbulent and acrimonious time in the history of systematics. During this period — the 1960s and 1970s — much of the foundation of modern systematic methodology was established as cladistic approaches became widely accepted. Virtually complete by the end of the 1980s, the wide perception has been that little has changed. This volume vividly illustrates that cladistic methodologies have continued to be developed, improved upon, and effectively use ... More
Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematics — an approach to discovering, unraveling, and testing hypotheses of evolutionary history — took hold during a turbulent and acrimonious time in the history of systematics. During this period — the 1960s and 1970s — much of the foundation of modern systematic methodology was established as cladistic approaches became widely accepted. Virtually complete by the end of the 1980s, the wide perception has been that little has changed. This volume vividly illustrates that cladistic methodologies have continued to be developed, improved upon, and effectively used in ever widening analytically imaginative ways.
Keywords:
cladistics,
phylogenetic systematics,
evolutionary history,
systematics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780520267725 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 |
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520267725.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
David M. Williams, editor
The Natural History Museum of London
Sandra Knapp, editor
The Natural History Museum of London
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