Stems, nodes, crown clades, and rank-free lists: Is Linnaeus dead?

Biological Reviews

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 633-648

  Benton, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clade; Cladistics; Classification; Linnaeus; Nomenclature; Phylocode; Phylogeny; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

HOMO SAPIENS; LINNAEA;

EID: 0033694053     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2000.tb00055.x     Document Type: Article

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