From taxonomy to phylogenetics : life and work of Willi Hennig /

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Willi Hennig (1913-1976), laid the fundaments of a 'scientific revolution' in Biological Systematics by his method called ""Phylogenetic Systematics"". The book describes the historical development of this 'scientific revolution', and highlights the life and t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schmitt, Michael, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Temas:
Hennig, Willi, > 1913-1976.
Hennig, Willi > 1913-1976
Biologists > Germany > Biography.
Cladistic analysis.
Biology > Classification.
Phylogeny.
Classification > methods
Phylogeny
Biologistes > Allemagne > Biographies.
Analyse cladistique.
Biologie > Classification.
Phylogenèse.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
NATURE > Reference.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
Biologists.
Biology.
Phylogenetische Systematik
phylogenèse.
taxonomie.
Germany.
Biography
Biographies.
Classification.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Willi Hennig's biography. A simple life in imperial Germany : Willi Hennig's family background and childhood ; A gifted young man : time in Dresden, at school and at the museum ; Studying insects ; Find a job and found a family ; An entomologist at war ; Willi Hennig's time at the Deutches Entomologisches Institut (DEI) after WWII ; After the Wall : from Berlin to Ludwigsburg ; Early debates ; Attempts to improve a situation ; Zenith and sudden end
  • Willi Hennig's personality : the shy revolutioniser
  • The taxonomist. Taxonomy of extant animals ; Amber fossils
  • The systematist. The era until 1960 ; Phylogenetic systematics (1966) ; Mayr and the "evolutionary classification" ; Later works ; Hennig and cladistics
  • The philosopher
  • The "Hennigian ravolution"
  • Willi Hennig : a man of order.

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