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Article: Drowning by numbers: rereading Nelson's "Nullius in Verba".(theory of evolution )
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- The Botanical Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Abstract
Introduction
Homology and Nobel Prizes
Felsenstein's Missing 100 Years--Naef's "Systematic Morphology"
What Did Hennig Add to Naef's "Systematic Morphology"?
Morphology, Palaeontology, and Cladistics--and Another Nobel Prize
Numerical Taxonomy
Homology and Relationships
Discussion
Acknowledgments
Literature Cited
Appendix: "Nullius in Verba"
Introduction
The theory of evolution has a simple answer for the main question formulated above: natural systematics can be explained by the assumption that existing forms are the descendents of species which developed from a common ancestor in each group by continuous change and division of species, ...