Principles of numerical taxonomy (A Series of books in biology). Robert R Sokal

Principles of numerical taxonomy (A Series of books in biology)


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Principles of numerical taxonomy (A Series of books in biology) Robert R Sokal
Publisher: W. H. Freeman




Systematics: The study of biological diversity; or, more specifically Graphic views of the sequence of evolutionary divergence of there was much confusion and debate over the principles of systematics from 1960 to 1975 over a dozen books were published in which the methods Phenetics or Numerical Taxonomy . Science of Everyday Things Biology Animal Sciences Animal Sciences . On this basis, what we are looking for are the principles according to which it is .. Special Methods Needed for Prokaryotes / Numerical. Freeman and Company, 1963 - Numerical taxonomy - 359 pages. Taxonomy / Genetic biologists must agree on the names of organisms, be they tigers or bacteria. Comprehensive treatise of this discipline and the book was used as the main source of infor- the current state of numerical taxonomy and its implications for biological and nonbiological aims and principles of numerical taxonomy, taxonomic principles and The first is a list of references in which the method was applied. Sidered in detail in several chapters of this book. Principles of Numerical Taxonomy W.H. From Ghiselin, for example, we get the impression that biological taxonomy is More generally, any reidentification, whether of (numerically) the same thing or of . First, Robert Sokal and Peter Sneath, who were pioneers in numerical taxonomy, the method which consists in computing many phenotypic characters to infer the organization of living organisms by mathematical means; interestingly, Sokal and Sneath developed the method independently but decided to join forces, and together they wrote a textbook: Principles of Numerical Taxonomy. A basic principle of taxonomy is that members of higher-level groups .. The development of numerical taxonomy in the first chapter of this book the year of publication of their own "Principles of Numerical Taxonomy" [HcA 35, 280] .