Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology - Softcover

Panchen, Alec L.

 
9780521315784: Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521315786 ISBN 13: 9780521315784
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

Historically, naturalists who proposed theories of evolution, including Darwin and Wallace, did so in order to explain the apparent relationship of natural classification. This book begins by exploring the intimate historical relationship between patterns of classification and patterns of phylogeny. However, it is a circular argument to use the data for classification. Alec Panchen presents other evidence for evolution in the form of a historically based but rigorously logical argument. This is followed by a history of methods of classification and phylogeny reconstruction including current mathematical and molecular techniques. The author makes the important claim that if the hierarchical pattern of classification is a real phenomenon, then biology is unique as a science in making taxonomic statements. This conclusion is reached by way of historical reviews of theories of evolutionary mechanism and the philosophy of science as applied to biology. The book is addressed to biologists, particularly taxonomists, concerned with the history and philosophy of their subject, and to philosophers of science concerned with biology. It is also an important source book on methods of classification and the logic of evolutionary theory for students, professional biologists, and paleontologists.

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Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0521315786
ISBN 13 
9780521315784
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
418
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
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