Advancing the Principles of Systematic Zoology

Schmitt and Wharton s emphasis on principles underscored two themes important to the postwar context. One involved a fundamental transition in American life sciences. 

On this point, when Systematic Zoology first appeared in 1952, contributions were solicited especially with reference to principles and the application of principles of wide implication and general interest in any phase of systematics, such as comparative anatomy, zoogeography, paleontology, taxonomy, classification, evolution, or genetics Black- 

The Council sees its field as the philosophic aspects of systematics, its principles 

Allen (1975) called this the revolt from morphology. The precise nature of this process has been debated extensively (e.g., Pauly, 1987 Rainger et ah, 1988 Maienschein, 1991 Cittadino, 1990 Benson et ah, 1991). Holton (1972) and Thackery (1992) cover postwar changes to science generally also see Heims (1991) for cybernetics Hagen (1992) for ecology and Allen (1975 187-228) and Kay (1993) for molecular biology. 

This information is printed on the inside back cover of Volume 1, Number 1. 

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