Cladistics
A Guide to Biological Classification
David M. Williams ; Malte C. Ebach
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This new edition of a foundational text provides a contemporary review of cladistics, as applied to biological classification.
Part I. The Interrelationships of Organisms: 1. What this book is about; 2. Classification; Part II. Systematics: Exposing
Myths: 3. Relationship diagrams; 4. Essentialism and typology; 5. Monothetic and polythetic taxa; 6. Non-taxa or the absence
of -phyly: paraphyly and aphyly; Part III. The Cladistic Programme: 7. Parameters of classification: ordo ab chao; Part IV.
How to Study Classification: 8. Modern artificial methods and raw data; 9. How to study classification: consensus techniques
and general classifications; 10. How to study classification - 'total evidence' vs 'consensus', character congruence vs taxonomic
congruence, simultaneous analysis vs partitioned data; 11. How to study classification: natural methods I - consensus revisited;
12. How to study classification: natural methods II - beyond method, the philosophy of three-item analysis; Part V. Beyond
Classification: 13. Beyond classification: how to study phylogeny; 14. The separation of classification and phylogenetics;
15. Further myths and misunderstandings.
David M. Williams is a researcher at the Natural History Museum, London, specializing in diatom (Bacillariophyta) taxonomy
and biogeography. He is the current president of the Systematics Association, London. He has written over 240 scientific papers
and ten books. Malte C. Ebach is Senior Lecturer in Biogeography at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He has published
extensively on the history, theory and methodology of biological systematics, taxonomy and biogeography. He is Associate Editor
for the Journal of Biogeography, Australian Systematic Botany and Editor of the CRC Biogeography Book Series.