Evolutionary taxonomy

Schofield, Robert. An Evolutionary Taxonomy of Eighteenth-Century Newtonianisms. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 7, 1978, 175-192. Schufle, J. A. Torbern Bergman, Earth Scientist. Chymia 12, 1967, 59-... 

For a myriad of intellectual reasons Blackwelder disagreed with principles underlying evolntionary taxonomy. He certainly was not alone. However, for some reason — no doubt complex reasons — he chose to represent this disagreement such that he needed to reject their project absolntely. Blackwelder created a self-identity based on this opposition and constructed his relation to evolutionary taxonomy in terms of bitter conflict and rivalry. This construction was more than rhetorical. It was personal. ... 

Blackwelder s emphasis on conflict with evolutionary taxonomy haunted him from the start of his involvement with the SSZ. He suffered his first major losses during efforts to launch the new journal. 

In the early days of spirited debate between cladists and the then traditional taxonomists, Walter Bock was one of the first to argue the case for evolutionary taxonomy from a philosophical point of view. Part of those early arguments concerned Karl Popper s distinc-... 

Bray, R.A. and Cribb, T.H. (2003) The digeneans of elasmobranchs - distribution and evolutionary significance. In Combes, C. and Jourdane, J. (eds) Taxonomy, Ecology and Evolution of Metazoan Parasites. Tome I. Perpignan University Press, Perpignan, France, pp. 67-96. 

Hyperaccumulation of metallic elements in plants as reviewed above, is likely to draw increasing attention from scientists throughout the world for the reasons outlined in the introduction to this chapter. Studies on nickel plants could well involve scientists from such diverse fields as ecology, biogeography, mineral exploration, evolutionary biology, taxonomy, physiology, phytochemistry, and even archaeology (phyto-... 

The discipline that attempts to understand the evolutionary interrelationships of living things, trying to interpret the way in which life has diversified and changed over time is systematics, while taxonomy is primarily the creation of names and groups. 

The hypothesis, which we shall call the 2 [to the 6th power] Rule, is, then, that irrespective of race, culture, or evolutionary level, culturally institutionalized folk taxonomies will not contain more than 2 [to the 6th power] entities and consequently will not require more than six orthogonally related binary dimensions for the definitions of all of the terms... 

Walter C. Sweet The Conodonta morphology, taxonomy, paleoecology, and evolutionary history of a long-extinct animal phylum... 

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