There has been much discussion in the recent systematic literature over whether different
data sets bearing on phylogenetic relationships should be analyzed separately or combined …

The sociobiology debates of the 1970s increased interest in the biology of behavior. At the
same time, the growth of cladistics increased interest in how to do systematics and …

This book is both a manual for the computer program MacClade, describing its features and
potential uses, as well as a portrayal of a phylogenetic approach to studying diversity and …

Branch support is quantified as the extra length needed to lose a branch in the consensus of
near‐most‐parsimonious trees. This approach is based solely on the original data, as …

A new method for weighting characters according to their homoplasy is proposed; the
method is non‐iterative and does not require independent estimations of weights. It is based …

The long-awaited revision of the industry standard on phylogenetics Since the publication of
the first edition of this landmark volume more than twenty-five years ago, phylogenetic …

Thc consistency index, introduced by Kluge and Farris (1969) as a measure ol'6t ofa
character to a tree, has been widely and successfully employed, but might be capable of …

Cladistics aims to reconstruct genealogies based on common ancestry, thus revealing the
phylogenetic relationships between taxa. Its applications vary from linguistic analysis to the …

A series of cladistic analyses assesses the status and membership of the taxon Polychaeta.
The available literature, and a review by Fauchald & Rouse (1997), on the 80 accepted …

Abstract—Data scored for cladistic analyses may be quantitative or qualitative, continuous or
discrete, and show overlap** or non-overlap** values between taxa. Quantitative and …