From taxonomy to phylogenetics : life and work of Willi Hennig /
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 t...
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Leiden ; Boston :
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2013.
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Table of 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.
