The Groundplan-divergence Method of constructing phylogenetic trees was created during the 1950's for illustrating systematic principles, but it was taken up widely by researchers carrying out ...

In On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin proclaimed that “our classifications will come to be, as far as they can be so made, genealogies”. That turned out to be easier said than done. Even as late ...

A cladistic analysis based on 21 characters from the external morphology and male genitalia was undertaken in order to determine the status of the flea subgenera Ctenophthalmus (Alloctenus) and C.

P Skelton, A Smith and N Monks Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; 2002. 80pp plus CD. £29.95, hardback ISBN 0-521-52341-9. There is barely a field of biology that remains untouched by the use ...

Cladistics is one way scientists classify organisms. A cladogram shows the nature of evolutionary relationships that may have occurred, similar to a family tree. You will make a cladogram in this ...

An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Henry M. Hoenigswald and Linda F. Wiener, eds. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1987. 286 pp. $25. It isn’t often that an analytical technique ...

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- a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of ...

in its reasoning than its practitioners admit, and that as a matter of history Christianity has had its partisans of unreason as well as reason. But I did want to address a common assumption, that ...

Vertebrates used to be so simple. They came in five common-sense categories: amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles. Birds were the winged and feathered ones, reptiles the scaly, ...

Funk, Vicki Ann and Brooks, D. R. 1981. Advances in cladistics: proceedings of the first meeting of the Willi Hennig Society. New York Botanical Garden.

Cladistics is one way scientists classify organisms. A cladogram shows the nature of evolutionary relationships that may have occurred, similar to a family tree. You will make a cladogram in this ...