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Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification : an Interdisciplinary Perspective /
The dynamic aspect of biological systems--the birth, growth, and death of individual organisms, the evolution of one form into another over time--has formed the basis for metaphors used in many fields for both artistic and heuristic purposes. Cladistic classification uses a tree whose branch points...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part One: Historical Perspectives
- 1 Biological Analogy in the Study of Language Before the Advent of Comparative Grammar
- 2 The Life and Growth of Language: Metaphors in Biology and Linguistics
- 3 "Organic" and "Organism" in Franz Bopp
- 4 On Schleicher and Trees
- 5 A Legal Point
- 6 Haeckel's Variations on Darwin
- Part Two: Methodology
- 7 Cladistic and Paleobotanical Approaches to Plant Phylogeny
- 8 Pattern and Process: Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Botany
- 9 Characters and Cladograms: Examples from Zoological Systematics
- 10 Reconstructing Genetic and Linguistic Trees: Phenetic and Cladistic Approaches
- 11 Of Phonetics and Genetics: A Comparison of Classification in Linguistic and Organic Systems
- 12 The Upside-down Cladogram: Problems in Manuscript Affiliation
- 13 Representing Language Relationships
- 14 Language Family Trees, Topological and Metrical
- 15 Computational Complexity and Cladistics
- Index