Numerical Taxonomy

1. Front Matter

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2. Approaches to Classification

   1. The Significance of Phylogenetic Classifications for Systematic and Evolutionary Biology

      • Joel Cracraft

      Pages 1-17

   2. The Value of Natural Classification

      • V. A. Funk

      Pages 18-21

   3. Philosophy and Method in Biological Classification

      • P. H. A. Sneath

      Pages 22-37

   4. The Phenetics-Cladistics Controversy: A Personal View

      • Robert R. Sokal

      Pages 38-41

   5. Parsimony and Paraphyly

      • Daniel P. Faith

      Pages 42-46

   6. The Future of Numerical Methods in Plant Systematics: A Personal Prospect

      • J. McNeill

      Pages 47-52

   7. A Practical View of Numerical Taxonomy or should I be a Pheneticist or a Cladist?

      • Richard J. Jensen

      Pages 53-71

   8. Taxa, Taxonomists, and Taxonomy

      • W. Wayne Moss

      Pages 72-75

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

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.

• Australis
• Mammalia
• Phylogenie
• biology
• classification
• development
• evolution
• parasites
• pea
• plant
• plant systematics
• polyploidy
• reductase
• systematics
• taxonomy

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

  Joseph Felsenstein

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