The dynamic aspect of biological systems—the birth, growth, and death of individual organisms, the evolution of one form into another over time—has formed the basis for metaphors used in many fields for both artistic and heuristic purposes. Cladistic classification uses a tree whose branch points are based on the possession of derived or relatively recent characteristics, rather than primitive ones.
Price: $95.00
Pages: 294
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
Series: Anniversary Collection
Publication Date:
11 November 2016
ISBN: 9781512802450
Format: eBook
BISACs:
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Taxonomy, Taxonomy and systematics, HISTORY / Historiography
"Should help focus attention on the possibilities for cross-fertilization among [disciplines]."
Henry M. Hoenigswald was Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Linda F. Weiner is on the faculty of St. Johns College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Preface
PART ONE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
1. Biological Analogy in the Study of Languages Before the Advent of Comparative Grammar
—W. Keith Percival
2. The Life and Growth of Language: Metaphors in Biology and Linguistics
—Rulon S. Wells
3. "Organic" and "Organism" in Franz Bopp
—Anna Morpurgo Davies
4. On Schleicher and Trees
—Konrad Koerner
5. A Legal Point
—Boyd H. Davis
6. Haeckel's Variations on Darwin
—Jane M. Oppenheimer
PART TWO: METHODOLOGY
7. Cladistic and Paleobotanical Approaches to Plant Phylogeny
—Peter R. Crane and Christopher R. Hill
8. Pattern and Process: Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Botany
—Peter F. Stevens
