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Tables of Contents for Phylogenetic Systematics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
I. The Position of Systematics Among the Biological Sciences
1
27
General Concept of Systematics
1
2
The Special Tasks of Biological Systematics
3
6
The Phylogenetic System and Its Position Among the Possible and Necessary Systems in Biology
9
19
II. Tasks and Methods of Taxonomy
28
169
Taxonomic Tasks in the Area of the Lower Categories
29
41
Comparative holomorphology as an auxiliary science of taxonomy: The allomorphism of species
32
14
Chorological relationships of individuals and their significance for the taxonomy of lower group categories
46
10
The species category in the time dimension. The species concept and paleontology
56
9
Summary
65
5
The Taxonomic Task in the Area of the Higher Group Categories
70
127
The mode of origin of higher taxa and the question of their real existence
70
13
Taxonomic methods in the higher group categories
83
114
III. Problems, Tasks, and Methods of Phylogenetics
197
37
General
197
32
The concepts of evolution and phylogenesis
197
9
Monophyly and polyphyly
206
3
Dichotomy and radiation
209
7
Explosive radiation, typogenesis, and related concepts
216
13
Phylogenesis and Space
229
5
IV. Concluding Remarks
234
6
Bibliography
240
13
Index
253