The New TaxonomyQuentin D. Wheeler Finalist for 2009 The Council on Botanical & Horticultural Libraries Literature Award!A Fresh Look at Taxonomy The most fundamental of all biological sciences, taxonomy underpins any long term strategies for reconstructing the great tree of life or salvaging as much biodiversity as possible. Yet we are still unable to say with any certainty how |
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... evolutionary processes) progressed over sufficient periods of time. He was confusing the methods and goals of the emerging science of population genetics with those of the established science of taxonomy; this is understandable to the ...
... evolutionary processes) progressed over sufficient periods of time. He was confusing the methods and goals of the emerging science of population genetics with those of the established science of taxonomy; this is understandable to the ...
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... evolutionary theory? No such denial of experimentalism or genetics or evolutionary theory is associated with doing taxonomy, of course, but the potential stigma was and remains a frightening one. Just as denying experiments to most ...
... evolutionary theory? No such denial of experimentalism or genetics or evolutionary theory is associated with doing taxonomy, of course, but the potential stigma was and remains a frightening one. Just as denying experiments to most ...
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... evolutionary' taxonomy that suffered from this unfortunate confusion of processes and patterns (Eldredge and Cracraft, 1980). Huxley had also the seemingly laudable ambition of a unified biology. This was a well-intended goal that could ...
... evolutionary' taxonomy that suffered from this unfortunate confusion of processes and patterns (Eldredge and Cracraft, 1980). Huxley had also the seemingly laudable ambition of a unified biology. This was a well-intended goal that could ...
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... evolutionary biology would bring untold riches to taxonomy (the charitable view of what Mayr and others had in mind in their new and widened definition), it had quite the opposite effect. Instead, support was focused on 'evolutionary ...
... evolutionary biology would bring untold riches to taxonomy (the charitable view of what Mayr and others had in mind in their new and widened definition), it had quite the opposite effect. Instead, support was focused on 'evolutionary ...
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... evolutionary history in a way that was testable and not merely anecdotal or, at best, read from a fossil record widely acknowledged to be fragmentary and incomplete. How phylogeny could be reconstructed rigorously was the sister mystery ...
... evolutionary history in a way that was testable and not merely anecdotal or, at best, read from a fossil record widely acknowledged to be fragmentary and incomplete. How phylogeny could be reconstructed rigorously was the sister mystery ...
Contents
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Chapter 2 Networks and Their Role in eTaxonomy | 19 |
Chapter 3 Taxonomy as a Team Sport | 33 |
Chapter 4 Planetary Biodiversity Inventories as Models for the New Taxonomy | 55 |
Chapter 5 On the Use of Taxonomic Concepts in Support of Biodiversity Research and Taxonomy | 63 |
The Role of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility GBIF | 87 |
Opportunities and Challenges | 95 |
ICZN ZooBank and the New Taxonomy | 129 |
ThreeDimensional Specimen Ordination and Recognition | 143 |
Chapter 10 Taxonomic Shock and Awe | 211 |
Index | 227 |
Systematics Association Publications | 239 |
Back cover | 245 |
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