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This book examines the relationship between classification and evolutionary theory, with reference to the competing schools of taxonomic thinking. Emphasis is placed on one of these schools, the transformed cladists, who have attempted to reject all evolutionary thinking in classification and to cast doubt on evolution in general.

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"...the present book is by far the most rigorous available, and its criticisms are much more pointed and direct. In particular, the critique of transformed cladism goes well beyond the usual rather bland remarks..." Geological Magazine

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Preface; Introduction; Part I. Issues Pertaining to the Philosophy of Science: 1. Theoretical and descriptive attitudes in taxonomy; Part II. The Status of Theoretical Classifications: 2. Evolutionary systematics and theoretical information; 3. Phylogenetic cladistics and theoretical information; Part III. The Status of Descriptive Classifications: 4. Phenetics and the descriptive attitude; 5. Transformed cladistics and the methodological turn; 6. Transformed cladistics and evolution; Notes; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index.

Transformed Cladistics Taxonomy and Evolution

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 30 March 1990
      ISBN-13 9780521340861
      978-0521340861
      ISBN-10 0521340861
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      Taxonomy and systematics

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book examines the relationship between classification and evolutionary theory, with reference to the competing schools of taxonomic thinking. Emphasis is placed on one of these schools, the transformed cladists, who have attempted to reject all evolutionary thinking in classification and to cast doubt on evolution in general.

      Trade Review

      "...the present book is by far the most rigorous available, and its criticisms are much more pointed and direct. In particular, the critique of transformed cladism goes well beyond the usual rather bland remarks..." Geological Magazine

      Table of Contents

      Preface; Introduction; Part I. Issues Pertaining to the Philosophy of Science: 1. Theoretical and descriptive attitudes in taxonomy; Part II. The Status of Theoretical Classifications: 2. Evolutionary systematics and theoretical information; 3. Phylogenetic cladistics and theoretical information; Part III. The Status of Descriptive Classifications: 4. Phenetics and the descriptive attitude; 5. Transformed cladistics and the methodological turn; 6. Transformed cladistics and evolution; Notes; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index.

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