Cladistics: Perspectives on the Reconstruction of Evolutionary History : Papers Presented at a Workshop on the Theory and Application of Cladistic Methodology, March · 22-28, 1981, University of California, Berkeley

A collection of papers from a conference on cladistics that present a variety of views on the theory and methods of phylogenetic reconstruction. Contents Preface Contributors Introduction Part I. Philosophical Concerns Introduction 1. Cladistic Theory: Hypotheses That Blur and Grow 2. The Relevance of Parsimony to Phylogenetic Inference 3. Monophyly: Its Meaning and Importance Part II. Character Evaluation Introduction 4. The Concept of Homology and Its Central Role in the Elucidation of Plant Systematic Relationships 5. Problems in the Determination of Evolutionary Directionality of Character-State Change for Phylogenetic Reconstruction Part III. Cladogram Construction Introduction Section A. Parsimony Methods 6. Applications of the Concepts of Groundplan-Divergence 7. Quantitative Parsimony Section B. Compatibility Methods 8. Phylogenetic Trees and Character-State Trees 9. Evaluating Characters by Character Compatibility Analysis Section C. Comparison of Methods 10. The Statistical Approach to Inferring Evolutionary Trees and What It Tells Us About Parsimony and Compatibility 11. Application of Compatibility and Parsimony Methods at the Infraspecific, Specific, and Generic Levels in Poaceae 12. Cladistic and Other Methods: Problems, Pitfalls, and Potentials Part IV. Applications Introduction 13. Considerations in Formalizing a Classification 14. Cladistics and Biogeography Appendix: An Introduction to Computer-Assisted Cladistic Analysis Participants in the Workshop on the Theory and Application of Cladistic Methodology Author Index Subject Index