Foundations of Systematics and Biogeography

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Williams, David M. (Editor), Ebach, Malte C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Cell biology.; Evolutionary biology.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.; Evolutionary Biology.; Cell Biology.

This volume draws attention to the seminal studies and important advances that have shaped systematic and biogeographic thinking and continue to influence its direction today. It traces concepts in homology and classification from the 19th century to the present through the provision of a unique ant...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Systematics, Evolution, and Classification
• Systematics as Problem-Solving
• The Archetype
• Ernst Haeckel and Systematische Phylogenie
• The German Development of Morphology: From Ernst Haeckel to Willi Hennig
• Pattern Cladistics
• Homologues and Homology
• Discovering Homologues
• Homology and Systematics
• Homology and Transformation
• Character Conflict
• The Analyses of Relationships
• Biogeographical Relationships, Evolution, and Classification.