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From taxonomy to phylogenetics : life and work of Willi Hennig / by Michael Schmitt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) : illustrations (some colour), portraits, facsimiliesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004219298
  • 9004219293
  • 1299561357
  • 9781299561359
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From taxonomy to phylogenetics.DDC classification:
  • 570.92 23
LOC classification:
  • QH31.H3585 S36 2013eb
Other classification:
  • WB 2385
  • WB 3181
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Willi Hennig's biography. A simple life in imperial Germany : Willi Hennig's family background and childhood ; A gifted young man : time in Dresden, at school and at the museum ; Studying insects ; Find a job and found a family ; An entomologist at war ; Willi Hennig's time at the Deutches Entomologisches Institut (DEI) after WWII ; After the Wall : from Berlin to Ludwigsburg ; Early debates ; Attempts to improve a situation ; Zenith and sudden end -- Willi Hennig's personality : the shy revolutioniser -- The taxonomist. Taxonomy of extant animals ; Amber fossils -- The systematist. The era until 1960 ; Phylogenetic systematics (1966) ; Mayr and the "evolutionary classification" ; Later works ; Hennig and cladistics -- The philosopher -- The "Hennigian ravolution" -- Willi Hennig : a man of order.
Summary: Willi Hennig (1913-1976), laid the fundaments of a 'scientific revolution' in Biological Systematics by his method called ""Phylogenetic Systematics"". The book describes the historical development of this 'scientific revolution', and highlights the life and the work of a 'cautious revolutioniser' in a Germany of dictatorship, war, and separation
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Willi Hennig (1913-1976), laid the fundaments of a 'scientific revolution' in Biological Systematics by his method called ""Phylogenetic Systematics"". The book describes the historical development of this 'scientific revolution', and highlights the life and the work of a 'cautious revolutioniser' in a Germany of dictatorship, war, and separation

Introduction -- Willi Hennig's biography. A simple life in imperial Germany : Willi Hennig's family background and childhood ; A gifted young man : time in Dresden, at school and at the museum ; Studying insects ; Find a job and found a family ; An entomologist at war ; Willi Hennig's time at the Deutches Entomologisches Institut (DEI) after WWII ; After the Wall : from Berlin to Ludwigsburg ; Early debates ; Attempts to improve a situation ; Zenith and sudden end -- Willi Hennig's personality : the shy revolutioniser -- The taxonomist. Taxonomy of extant animals ; Amber fossils -- The systematist. The era until 1960 ; Phylogenetic systematics (1966) ; Mayr and the "evolutionary classification" ; Later works ; Hennig and cladistics -- The philosopher -- The "Hennigian ravolution" -- Willi Hennig : a man of order.

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