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Numerical Taxonomy

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  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. Joseph Felsenstein

    1. Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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Part of the book series: Nato ASI Subseries G: (ASIG, volume 1)

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Table of contents (71 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  3. Taxonomic Congruence

    1. Taxonomic Congruence in the Caminalcules

      • Robert R. Sokal
      Pages 76-81

    2. Taxonomic Congruence — A Reanalysis

      • F. James Rohlf, Donald H. Colless, Gene Hart
      Pages 82-86

    3. A Simulation Model for Comparing Numerical Taxonomic Methods

      • Kent L. Fiala
      Pages 87-91

    4. Taxonomic Congruence: A Brief Discussion

      • Jorge V. Crisci
      Pages 92-96

    5. Algorithms Optimizing the Taxonomic Information of Classifications

      • Roger I. C. Hansell, Peter H. A. Sneath
      Pages 97-101

    6. Prediction = Parsimony or Partitions?

      • James W. Archie
      Pages 102-106

    7. Information Content and Most Parsimonious Trees

      • Daniel P. Faith
      Pages 107-111

    8. Numerical Taxonomic Evaluation of the Taxonomic Value of Character Suites in Tillandsia L

      • Sue Gardner
      Pages 112-116

    9. Instability and Incongruence in the Brooms and Gorses (Leguminosae Subtribe Genistinae)

      • M. Adey, I. C. Prentice, F. A. Bisby, J. A. Harris
      Pages 117-121

    10. A View of Some Consensus Methods for Trees

      • F. R. McMorris, D. B. Meronk, D. A. Neumann
      Pages 122-126

    11. Distributions of Distances between Pairs of Classifications

      • William H. E. Day
      Pages 127-131
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About this book

The NATO Advanced Study Institute on Numerical Taxonomy took place on the 4th - 16th of July, 1982, at the Kur- und Kongresshotel Residenz in Bad Windsheim, Federal Republic of Germany. This volume is the proceedings of that meeting, and contains papers by over two-thirds of the participants in the Institute. Numerical taxonomy has been attracting increased attention from systematists and evolutionary biologists. It is an area which has been marked by debate and conflict, sometimes bitter. Happily, this meeting took place in an atmosphere of "GemUtlichkeit", though scarcely of unanimity. I believe that these papers will show that there is an increased understanding by each taxonomic school of each others' positions. This augurs a period in which the debates become more concrete and specific. Let us hope that they take place in a scientific atmosphere which has occasionally been lacking in the past. Since the order of presentation of papers in the meeting was affected by time constraints, I have taken the liberty of rearranging them into a more coherent subject ordering. The first group of papers, taken from the opening and closing days of the meeting, debate philosophies of classification. The next two sections have papers on congruence, clustering and ordination. A notable concern of these participants is the comparison and testing of classifications. This has been missing from many previous discussions of numerical classification.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Joseph Felsenstein

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Numerical Taxonomy

  • Editors: Joseph Felsenstein

  • Series Title: Nato ASI Subseries G:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69024-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-69026-6Published: 07 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-69024-2Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0258-1256

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 646

  • Topics: Zoology, Plant Sciences

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