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Principles and Techniques of Contemporary Taxonomy

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  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Donald L. J. Quicke

    1. Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK

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Part of the book series: Experimental and Clinical Neuroscience (ECN)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Donald L. J. Quicke
    Pages 1-10

  3. Characters, Taxa and Species

    • Donald L. J. Quicke
    Pages 11-51

  4. Phylogenetic Reconstruction — Cladistics and Related Methods

    • Donald L. J. Quicke
    Pages 52-84

  5. Phenetic Methods in Taxonomy

    • Donald L. J. Quicke
    Pages 85-97

  6. Keys and Identification

    • Donald L. J. Quicke
    Pages 98-114

  7. Nomenclature and Classification

    • Donald L. J. Quicke
    Pages 115-135

  8. Cytotaxonomy

    • Donald L. J. Quicke
    Pages 136-145

  9. Chemotaxonomy and Related Topics

    • Donald L. J. Quicke
    Pages 146-154

  10. Immunotaxonomy

    • Donald L. J. Quicke
    Pages 155-166

  11. Proteins and Taxonomy

    • Donald L. J. Quicke
    Pages 167-189

  12. Nucleic Acid Methods

    • Donald L. J. Quicke
    Pages 190-224

  13. Palaeotaxonomy, Biogeography, Evolution and Extinction

    • Donald L. J. Quicke
    Pages 225-240

  14. Museums, Herbaria, Biodiversity, Conservation and the Future of Taxonomy

    • Donald L. J. Quicke
    Pages 241-259

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 260-311
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About this book

Taxonomy is an ever-changing, controversial and exCitmg field of biology. It has not remained motionless since the days of its founding fathers in the last century, but, just as with other fields of endeavour, it continues to advance in leaps and bounds, both in procedure and in philosophy. These changes are not only of interest to other taxonomists, but have far reaching implications for much of the rest of biology, and they have the potential to reshape a great deal of current biological thought, because taxonomy underpins much of biological methodology. It is not only important that an ethologist. physiologist. biochemist or ecologist can obtain information about the identities of the species which they are investigating; biology is also uniquely dependent on the comparative method and on the need to generalize. Both of these necessitate knowledge of the evolutionary relationships between organisms. and it is the science of taxonomy that can develop testable phylogenetic hypotheses and ultimately provide the best estimates of evolutionary history and relationships.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK

    Donald L. J. Quicke

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Principles and Techniques of Contemporary Taxonomy

  • Authors: Donald L. J. Quicke

  • Series Title: Experimental and Clinical Neuroscience

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2134-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7514-0019-9Published: 15 July 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4945-0Published: 03 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2134-7Published: 13 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 311

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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