Transformed Cladistics, Taxonomy and Evolution - Couverture rigide

Scott-Ram, N. R.

 
9780521340861: Transformed Cladistics, Taxonomy and Evolution
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521340861 ISBN 13 : 9780521340861
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

This book examines the relationship between classification and evolutionary theory, with reference to the competing schools of taxonomic thinking.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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. The author examines the limits to this line of thought from a philosophical and methodological perspective rather than from a biological viewpoint. He concludes that transformed cladistics does not achieve what it claims and that it either implicity assumes a Platonic World View, or is unintelligible without taking into account evolutionary processes - the very processes it claims to reject. Through this analysis the author attempts to formulate criteria, of an objective and consistent nature, that can be used to judge competing methodologies and theories without resorting to any particular theoretical standpoint for justification. Philosophers of science, zoologists interested in taxonomy and evolutionary biologists will find this a compelling study of an area of biological thought that has been attracting a great deal of attention.

Revue de presse

"...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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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1990
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521340861
ISBN 13 
9780521340861
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
252
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780521055130: Transformed Cladistics and Taxonomy

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  052105513X ISBN 13 :  9780521055130
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008
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