What, Exactly, is Cladistics? Re-writing the History of Systematics and Biogeography

Acta Biotheoretica

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 249-268

  Williams, D M ^a   Ebach, M C ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolf Naef; Cladistics; Comparative biology; Dispersal; Ernst Haeckel; Homology; Paraphyly; Phenetics

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOLOGY; CLADISTICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISPERSAL; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 67651149933     PISSN: 00015342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10441-008-9058-5     Document Type: Article

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