Multicellular Animals : Volume II: The Phylogenetic System of the Metazoa PDF
by Peter Ax
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Those who wish for permanence in classifi- cation must pay the price of stasis - as if for- ever condemned to confound whales with fish.
M. T. Ghiselin 1981, p. 283 Scientific argument is a debate concerned with the solution of unresolved problems.
Before continuing with the phylogenetic system of the Metazoa this foreword gives me the opportunity to discuss some controversial ques- tions, to state selected positions more precisely and to remedy omissions.
I would like to draw special attention to serious problems for phylogenetic systematics resulting from the inevitable confrontation with the current rules of nomenclature 1.
In carrying out this debate, I hope not to lose the goodwill of those readers who are experts within the first few pages.
A textbook for students? - Critics who ask that question and answer in the negative probably underestimate the open-mindedness of young people who are not troubled by, or can easily free themselves from, the restraints and arbitrariness of traditional classifications - and to whom systematics is offered as a scientific product in such a form that arguments for every single decision are comprehensible and checkable and can therefore be fully analyzed.
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- Publisher:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Publication Date:09/03/2013
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- Publisher:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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- ISBN:9783662103968