PHYLOGENETICS: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PHYLOGENETIC SYSTEMATICS

AbstractNumerical taxonomy's claims for numerical phyogenetic inferences—i.e. various authors' contributions included in Sneath and Sokal's new textbook— re critically examined, and contrasted with Hennig's hylogenetic systematics. Numerical phyletics is found to be vague, inconsistent, and defective concerning the precision and power of problem solution in theory and practice. Therefore, in all these aspects it is inferior to Hennig's phylogenetic systematics, which seem to have been misunderstood and misinterpreted by Sneath and Sokal, apparently due to lack of sufficient information about the present state of this methodology.

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Phylogenetics: The Theory and Practice of Phylogenetic Systematics.

Systematic Zoology ◽

10.2307/2413419 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 98

Author(s):

Larry E. Watrous ◽

E. O. Wiley

Keyword(s):

Theory And Practice ◽

Phylogenetic Systematics

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Phylogenetics, The Theory and Practice of Phylogenetic Systematics

Journal of Parasitology ◽

10.2307/3280934 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 68 (4) ◽

pp. 724 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Daniel R. Brooks ◽

E. O. Wiley

Keyword(s):

Theory And Practice ◽

Phylogenetic Systematics

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Phylogenetics: The Theory and Practice of Phylogenetic Systematics, 2nd edition.—E. O. Wiley and Bruce S. Lieberman

Systematic Biology ◽

10.1093/sysbio/sys065 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 61 (6) ◽

pp. 1087-1088 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

David A. Morrison

Keyword(s):

Theory And Practice ◽

Phylogenetic Systematics

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5. Species and classification

Philosophy of Biology: A Very Short Introduction ◽

10.1093/actrade/9780198806998.003.0005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 63-82

Author(s):

Samir Okasha

Keyword(s):

Evolutionary Biology ◽

Species Concept ◽

Biological Species ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Biological Species Concept ◽

Phylogenetic Systematics ◽

Species Problem ◽

Higher Taxa ◽

Linnaean System

‘Species and classification’ first considers the species problem and the biological species concept. It then discusses phylogenetic systematics, which involves the organization of species into higher taxa. Classification in science raises a deep philosophical issue as all objects can in principle be classified in more than one way. Is there a ‘correct’ way to assign organisms to species, and species to higher taxa? Classification of organisms was traditionally done using the Linnaean system, which served biologists well for years, and elements of it are still used today. However, the rise of evolutionary biology has led to fundamental changes in both the theory and practice of biological classification.

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