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Phylogenetic Systematics Paperback – March 1, 1999

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Phylogenetic Systematics, first published in 1966, marks a turning point in the history of systematic biology. Willi Hennig's influential synthetic work, arguing for the primacy of the phylogenetic system as the general reference system in biology, generated significant controversy and opened possibilities for evolutionary biology that are still being explored.

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The late Willi Hennig was director of phylongenetic research at the State Museum of Natural Science, Stuttgart. His honors included the Gold Medal of the Linnaean Society and the Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Science of the American Museum of Natural History

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Illinois Press (March 1, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 280 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0252068149
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0252068140
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches

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Francisco Concha

Mandatory for evolutionary biologists

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 1, 2017

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Well... It's Hennig and this is the basis for cladistics. More than just a good book, it's mandatory for understandig phylogenetic history and evolution of this branch of science!

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L. Lenn Sisson

The Foundation for Cladistic Theory and Practice

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This is the founding work for cladistic theory (which Hennig called phylogenetic systematics, hence the title). Cladistics has become so pervasive in biology and paleontology that this work should be considered mandatory reading for people employed in or seriously interested in either field.

Basically, cladistics is a method of determining hierarchical evolutionary relationships based on the transformation of morphological (now includes genetic) characters of organisms (plants, animals, etc.). Hennig called these transformed characters "apomorphic characters". Using these characters for a group of species, a cladistic analysis is performed.

While cladistic analysis is a complicated process, at its most fundamental level it is an analysis based on the number of these characters transformed between species. The results allow a "tree of descent" to be worked out that gives (in a broad sense) the relative evolutionary relationships of a set of organisms.

Hennig touches only briefly on the actual process. This book is much more about the theories that underly cladistics than about the actual practice of it.

While several previous workers had many of the ideas espoused by Hennig, he was the first to synthesize these ideas and (adding elements of his own) to form what is now cladistics. This area of study has grown and changed over the four decades since Hennig's work was translated into English and began to receive broad attention by the scientific community. Thus, many of the ideas in this book are expressed in a more primitive fashion than they are currently, having in the interim been developed by a number of later workers. The book, however, is still vital reading for understanding cladistics, since it is the basis of all subsequent work on the subject.

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Hennig. A Must Read for All Systematists

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Anyone who wishes to be considered a serious student of systematics and biodiversity should own and read this book. Many of the philosophical ideas are as fresh today as they were 40 years ago when Hennig's 1950 German masterpiece was updated and translated into English. This book changed everything about systematics and, for that matter, evolution. Phylogenies are now the backbone of much evolutionary research and the only reason that they are is due to the triumph of Phylogenetics.

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The foundations of phylogenetic science

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A translation of the Hennig's original ideas about the science of systematics... One of the most well built set of ideas to help us to understand the evolution of living organisms. A methodological framework to test hypotheses about the evolutionary history of species under a darwininian perspective and a popperian logic.The most robust, elegant and "parsimonious" statement about what homology really means...

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Pierre Leveque

Très bien

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系統学の草分け

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Willi Hennigは系統学者にとっては言わずと知れた分岐学の草分けである．原著はドイツ語で執筆され，初めての英訳が出たのは1966年のことである．以来，系統学にとって非常に重要な概念を述べた本書は様々に改定されてきた．それらの版を取りまとめ，もう一度総括して英訳したのが本書である．従って内容は原著とはかなりの部分で変わっている（らしい）．しかしこの重要な著作を英語で，しかも最近のバージョンとして読むことができることの意義は大きい．また，1966年の英訳初版と読み比べてみることもお勧めする．

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