Review paper

Coherence, correspondence, and the renaissance of morphology in phylogenetic systematics

Volume: 25, Issue: 5, Pages: 528 - 544
Published: Sep 16, 2009
Abstract
The decline in morphological phylogenies has become a pronounced trend in contemporary systematics due to a disregard for theoretical, methodological, conceptual, and philosophical approaches. The role and meaning of morphology in phylogenetic reconstruction and classification have been undermined by the following: (i) the ambiguous delineation of morphological characters; (ii) the putative "objectivity" of molecular data; (iii) that morphology...
Paper Details
Title
Coherence, correspondence, and the renaissance of morphology in phylogenetic systematics
Published Date
Sep 16, 2009
Journal
Volume
25
Issue
5
Pages
528 - 544
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