The use of hierarchies as organizational models in systematics

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-49

  Knox, Eric B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clarkia; Classification; Evolution; Genealogy; Gregg's paradox; Heterogaura; Linnaean; Monophyletic; Paraphyletic; Phylogenetic

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; HIERACHY; ORGANIZATIONAL MODEL; SYSTEMATICS;

EID: 0031907585     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1997.0181     Document Type: Article

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