Cladistics numerical taxonomy

Cladistic systematics has appeared in at least two recent historical arenas numerical taxonomy and paleontology. Within each area of contention, cladistics achieved a reform — but to a degree only. Its success has been evident for a generation. 

Numerical taxonomy in its cladistic phase became animated through the real progress in systematic theory over the past two decades. .. the discoveries that phenetics is false that parsimony [or compatibility, or likelihood] is essential that exact solutions to parsimony problems [or compatibility problems, or likelihood problems] are possible (Farris and Platnick, 1989 308). Animation flowed from the belief that (Farris, 1968 9) perhaps the most impressive theoretical advantage of the parsimony criterion is that it is certain to give a correct tree, provided the data consist of a sufficient array of non-convergent characters, and from similar beliefs, with similar provisos, that compatibility, or maximum likelihood, might alternatively — even certainly — give a correct tree. 

G. NELSON Abstract Introduction Numerical Taxonomy Paleontology Cladistics... 

Numerical techniques for systematics such as cladistics, genome searching and numerical taxonomy. 

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