Olivier Rieppel

Phylogenetic Systematics (eBook, ePUB)

Haeckel to Hennig

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Phylogenetic Systematics: Haeckel to Hennig traces the development of phylogenetic systematics against the foil of idealistic morphology through 100 years of German biology. It starts with the iconic Ernst Haeckel-the German Darwin from Jena-and the evolutionary morphology he developed. It ends with Willi Hennig, the founder of modern phylogenetic

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781138032156
• Artikelnr.: 45450873

Autorenporträt

Olivier Rieppel is Rowe Family Curator of Evolutionary Biology at The Field Museum in Chicago. His main current research interests focus on Triassic marine reptiles from southern China. He also contributed extensively to the comparative anatomy and evolution of modern reptiles, most notably the evolutionary origin of turtles and snakes. He published widely in the history and philosophy of comparative biology on topics as diverse as species concepts, mid-eighteenth-century French biology, and the history of phylogenetic systematics. Rieppel is on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed scientific journals and has, himself, published more than 350 scientific papers and 7 books.

Inhaltsangabe

The Evolutionary Turn in Comparative Anatomy. Of Parts and Wholes. The Turn
against Haeckel. The Rise of Holism in German Biology. The Rise of German
("Aryan") Biology. Ganzheitsbiologie. The Ideological Instrumentalization
of Biology. A New Beginning: From Speciation to Phylogenetics. Grundzüge:
The Conceptual Foundations of Phylogenetic Systematics. Epilogue.
Literature Cited.