Foundations of Systematics and BiogeographyAnyone interested in comparative biology or the history of science will find this myth-busting work genuinely fascinating. It draws attention to the seminal studies and important advances that have shaped systematic and biogeographic thinking. It traces concepts in homology and classification from the 19th century to the present through the provision of a unique anthology of scientific writings from Goethe, Agassiz, Owen, Naef, Zangerl and Nelson, among others. |
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Foundations of Systematics and Biogeography David M. Williams,Malte C. Ebach No preview available - 2010 |
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affinity Agassiz analogy analysis animals appear approach archetype binary biogeography biology birds branching called causes Chapter characters cladistics cladogram classification comparative comparisons complex component concept considered correspondence criteria defined derived diagram discovered discussed distribution early edition evidence evolution evolutionary example explained Fail Felsenstein Figure fossil further geographical Goethe groups Haeckel Halstead Hennig homology idea included interpretation kinds later matrix Mayr meaning method morphology Museum Naef natural Nelson Nelson & Platnick node noted notion organisms origin Owen parallelism parsimony particular Pass pattern Patterson phylogenetic phylogeny position possible present problem published referred regions relation relationships relative remains represented resemblances seems sense sequence shared significance similarity simply Sneath solutions species statements structures suggested synapomorphy systematics Table taxa term theory things transformation translation tree understanding understood unit various
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Page 232 - Tieddemann [sic] found, and his discoveries have been most fully confirmed and elucidated by M. Serres, that the brain of the foetus, in the highest class of vertebrated animals, assumes, in succession, the various forms which belong to fishes, reptiles and birds, before it acquires those additions and modifications which are peculiar to the mammiferous tribe. So that in the passage from the embryo to the perfect...
Page 134 - ... its general homology is enunciated. If it be admitted that the general type of the vertebrate endo-skeleton is rightly represented by the idea of a series of essentially similar segments succeeding each other longitudinally from one end of the body to the other, such segments being for the most part composed of pieces similar in number and arrangement, and though sometimes extremely modified for special functions, yet never so as to wholly mask their typical character, — then any given part...
Page vii - But where shall wisdom be found ? and where is the place of understanding ? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 232 - I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have shown that there is a correspondence between the succession of Fishes in geological times and the different stages of their growth in the egg, — this is all.
Page 170 - ... all true classification is genealogical; that community of descent is the hidden bond which naturalists have been unconsciously seeking, and not some unknown plan of creation, or the enunciation of general propositions, and the mere putting together and separating objects more or less alike.
Page 131 - ANALOGUE." — A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.
Page 29 - Hence we conceive of the individual animal as a small world, existing for its own sake, by its own means. Every creature is its own reason to be. All its parts have a direct effect on one another, a relationship to one another, thereby constantly renewing the circle of life; thus we are justified in considering every animal physiologically perfect.
Page 170 - When identical or nearly similar forces, or environments, act on two or more parts of an organism which are exactly or nearly alike, the resulting modifications* of the various parts will be exactly or nearly alike. Further, if, instead of similar parts in the same organism, we suppose the same forces to act on parts in two organisms, which parts are exactly or nearly alike...
Page 96 - This has been of no avail. Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.
Page 241 - theory of transmutation of species" as a matter of course, though usually only to reject it as an exploded hypothesis. Thus the Elements of Geology of Alonzo Gray and CB Adams, 1852, enumerates three theories which have been advanced respecting the origin of animal species: (1) Successive special creations (2) " transmutation, which supposes that beings of the most simple organization having somehow come into existence, the more complex and the higher orders of animals have originated in them by...