10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLADIST»
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1
The Compleat
Cladist: A Primer of Phylogenetic Procedures
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
2
Encyclopedia of Evolution
The flowering plants (angiosperms) are a monophyletic group that consists of all
of the species descended from a common ancestor; within the angiosperms, the
monocots are a monophyletic group. a cladist, either a human is a fish, or else ...
3
Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social ...
Both cladist referees recommended rejection, one of the noncladists agreed that
it should be rejected, while the other recommended acceptance as is. When
Schuh rejected the paper, the author wrote back asking for the names of the
referees ...
4
The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study ...
The pattern cladist's commitment to theory neutrality gives rise to the same
problem (Ridley 1986, 89ff; Sober 1993, 182). Pattern cladists, like all cladists,
use synapomorphies as evidence for constructing classifications. But in order to
use ...
5
Naturalism, Evolution and Mind
Similarities between species, as far as the cladist is concerned, might serve as
evidence for shared ancestry, but it is of interest only insofar as it serves this
function. Cladistic analysis starts with the identification of characters and
character ...
6
Ornithology, Evolution, and Philosophy: The Life and Science ...
This step of the analysis is important for the cladist, the evolutionary systematist,
and the historical bio- geographer. There is no argument over the value of
cladistic analysis and the final product, the cladistic diagram or branching pattern
for ...
7
Transformed Cladistics, Taxonomy and Evolution
On a more general note, if the transformed cladists do succeed in purging all
evolutionary assumptions from their methodology, then they still have to face the
charge of resorting to a Platonic world view. No doubt the transformed cladist
would ...
8
Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays
The pheneticist and evolutionist classify species and genera in this manner. Not
so the cladist, who deals with the unknown quantities produced by phylo- genetic
splits. It is implicit in his principles that he is forced to make the prediction that ...
9
Dinosaur Systematics: Approaches and Perspectives
The cladist, in consequence, is obliged by the tenets of his creed to consider that
birds themselves are dinosaurs. So what does one call the other dinosaurs, the
dinosaurs that are not birds but which include the direct ancestors of birds?
Kenneth Carpenter, Philip J. Currie, 1992
10
The Metaphysics of Apes: Negotiating the Animal-Human Boundary
Cladist Matt Cartmill concurs with the primate taxonomists Colin Groves and
Jeffrey Schwartz, who both point to the moral implications of the fact that
consistent application of cladist principles positions at least some great apes in
the hominid ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLADIST»
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cladist is used in the context of the following news items.
A One-Man Clade
A cladist championing Figure 1 in his PhD dissertation is apt to see intermediates in the fossil record that his colleagues, and so his competitors ... «Discovery Institute, Jul 13»
The moldy kingdom gets a new neighbor
A strict cladist could create hundreds, if not thousands of kingdoms from Protista alone. It's not only splitters that get in on the action either. «Southern Fried Science, May 11»
The Red Ape Returns & Willi Hennig Superstar!
Enter Willi Hennig and the cladist revolution, which introduced a genuine system to systematics, so to speak. Using Karl Popper's criterion of ... «ScienceBlogs, Jun 09»
