Numerical Taxonomy

Front Matter....Pages I-X
The Significance of Phylogenetic Classifications for Systematic and Evolutionary Biology....Pages 1-17
The Value of Natural Classification....Pages 18-21
Philosophy and Method in Biological Classification....Pages 22-37
The Phenetics-Cladistics Controversy: A Personal View....Pages 38-41
Parsimony and Paraphyly....Pages 42-46
The Future of Numerical Methods in Plant Systematics: A Personal Prospect....Pages 47-52
A Practical View of Numerical Taxonomy or should I be a Pheneticist or a Cladist?....Pages 53-71
Taxa, Taxonomists, and Taxonomy....Pages 72-75
Taxonomic Congruence in the Caminalcules....Pages 76-81
Taxonomic Congruence — A Reanalysis....Pages 82-86
A Simulation Model for Comparing Numerical Taxonomic Methods....Pages 87-91
Taxonomic Congruence: A Brief Discussion....Pages 92-96
Algorithms Optimizing the Taxonomic Information of Classifications....Pages 97-101
Prediction = Parsimony or Partitions?....Pages 102-106
Information Content and Most Parsimonious Trees....Pages 107-111
Numerical Taxonomic Evaluation of the Taxonomic Value of Character Suites in Tillandsia L....Pages 112-116
Instability and Incongruence in the Brooms and Gorses (Leguminosae Subtribe Genistinae)....Pages 117-121
A View of Some Consensus Methods for Trees....Pages 122-126
Distributions of Distances between Pairs of Classifications....Pages 127-131
Sampling Distribution of Consensus Indices when All Bifurcating Trees are Equally Likely....Pages 132-136
Comparing Classifications....Pages 137-155
Cluster Validity by Concurrent Chaining....Pages 156-166
Characteristics of Four External Criterion Measures....Pages 167-173
Comparison of Classifications with the Data from which they are Derived....Pages 174-178
Sur la Signification des Classes Issues D’une Classification Automatique de Donnees....Pages 179-198
Significance Tests for Clusters: Overview and Comments....Pages 199-208
Inference Procedures for the Evaluation and Comparison of Proximity Matrices....Pages 209-228
Representing Proximities Data by Discrete, Continuous or “Hybrid” Models....Pages 229-248
Hierarchical Cluster Methods as Maximum Likelihood Estimators....Pages 249-253
The Occurrence of Multiple UPGMA Phenograms....Pages 254-258
Wagner Trees in Theory & Practice....Pages 259-278
The Causes of Character Incompatibility....Pages 279-295
The Uniquely Derived Concept as a Basis for Character Compatibility Analyses....Pages 296-303
Theoretical and Computational Considerations of the Compatibility of Qualitative Taxonomic Characters....Pages 304-314
Methods for Inferring Phylogenies: A Statistical View....Pages 315-334
A Divisive Algorithm for Estimating Parsimonious Trees....Pages 335-339
Relationships between Transformation Series and Some Numerical Cladistic Methods at the Infraspecific Level, when Genealogies are Known....Pages 340-345
Some Genetic Aspects of Morphometric Variation....Pages 346-363
Choice of Descriptors in Numerical Taxonomy for Static and Dynamic Shape Analysis and Recognition in Biology....Pages 364-377
A New Coding Procedure for Morphometric Data with an Example from Periodical Cicada Wing Veins....Pages 378-382
A Quick Method for Making Multistate Characters out of Continuous Measurements....Pages 383-383
Analyzing Character Variation in Geographic Space....Pages 384-403
A Review of the Numerical Methods for Recognising and Analysing Racial Differentiation....Pages 404-423
Testing Causal Hypotheses in the Study of Geographical Variation....Pages 424-443
Geographic Variation in Human Gene Frequencies....Pages 444-450
Treeness Tests and the Problem of Variable Evolutionary Rates....Pages 451-463
Phylogenetic Analysis of Range Expansion in the Grass Snake: Reticulate Evolution: Primary and Secondary Contact Zones....Pages 464-468
Correspondence between Geographic Proximity and Phenetic Similarity among Pinus Brutia Ten. Populations in Southern Turkey....Pages 469-473
Geographic Distribution, Polyploidy and Pattern of Flavonoids in Phragmites Australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud....Pages 474-478
Molecular Evolution of Mammalian Pancreatic Ribonucleases....Pages 479-483
Quantitative Comparison of Protein Chain Folds....Pages 484-488
An Approach to the Taxonomy of Malaria Parasites on the Basis of Protein Structures: Adenylate Kinase and Glutathione Reductase as Examples....Pages 489-489
Evolutionary Relations of Sulfate Reducers....Pages 490-494
Methods of Flavonoid Data Analysis....Pages 495-499
Phylogeny of Euphorbia Interpreted from Sterol Composition of Latex....Pages 500-504
Numerical Ecology: Developments and Recent Trends....Pages 505-523
Evolutionary Trees and Numerical Taxonomy in Studies of Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae)....Pages 524-526
Application of Numerical Techniques to the Systematics of Toxorhynchites (Diptera: Culicidae)....Pages 527-531
A Chromosome Inversion Pathway for Some Chironomus Species and Two New Techniques for Analyzing Similarity Functions....Pages 532-535
Multivariate Analysis of Variability Associated with Source of Origin in the Bacterium Simonsiella....Pages 536-537
Reflections on the Classifications of Yponomeuta (Yponomeutidae, Lepidoptera) and Numerical Taxonomic Procedure....Pages 538-542
A Phenetic Study of the Genus Xylocopa (Hym.-Apoidea)....Pages 543-546
Numerical Taxonomy of the Genus Chaetomium Kze....Pages 547-551
A Numerical Taxonomic Study on Carthamus L. Taxa in Turkey....Pages 552-556
Multivariate Analysis of the Polyploid Complex Valeriana Officinalis....Pages 557-561
Application of Numerical Taxonomic Techniques in the Study of Behavior....Pages 562-581
Numerical Taxonomy of Some Portuguese Wines....Pages 582-582
Image Analysis....Pages 583-599
Computers in Systematics: One Perspective....Pages 600-619
Automated Measurement with Portable Microcomputers....Pages 620-624
The Vicieae Database Project: Experimental Uses of a Monographic Taxonomic Database for Species of Vetch and Pea....Pages 625-629
Back Matter....Pages 630-644