Phylogenetic Systematics

Hennig, W. (1966). Phylogenetic Systematics. University of Illinois Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1966

Link

https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p068140

Cited from

philosophy

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Primes

• Classification
  • The pattern—define criteria, apply rules consistently, handle edge cases—transfers across domains, as Hennig (1966) demonstrated in cladistics by formalizing biological classification through shared derived characters, a methodology since adapted to fields well beyond systematics.

Domain-specific

• Polyphyly
  • In practical systematics, such a group is often assembled by a conspicuous similarity that evolved independently—homoplasy, including convergence—rather than by a synapomorphy inherited from an ancestor unique to the group.

Mechanisms

• Taxonomy Revision
  • The discipline it leans on is monophyly: the principle that a well-formed group should contain an ancestor and all its descendants

    This sourceDefines a monophyletic group in cladistics as an ancestor together with all of its descendants.

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