Phylogenetic Systematics: Haeckel to Hennig (Species and by Olivier Rieppel
By Olivier Rieppel
Phylogenetic Systematics: Haeckel to Hennig strains the advance of phylogenetic systematics opposed to the foil of idealistic morphology via a hundred years of German biology. It begins with the long-lasting Ernst Haeckel—the German Darwin from Jena—and the evolutionary morphology he constructed. It ends with Willi Hennig, the founding father of glossy phylogenetic systematics. Written in English, the ebook provides a different viewpoint on an enormous physique of German organic literature.
The e-book additionally deals a point of view on German biology within the 3rd Reich. the writer seems at how idealistic morphology and phylogenetic systematics represented opposed traditions in German biology, the 1st organicist-holistic, the latter empiricist-positivistic. furthermore, he explains the ways that either traditions obtained socio-political and ideological connotations, culminating of their lodging to assorted strands of Nazi ideology.
The book’s 9 chapters summarize a century of the conceptual improvement of systematics, describe either the background and philosophy of phylogenetic ways to the certainty of the historical past of lifestyles, learn the function of vital humans comparable to Haeckel, Gegenbauer, Portman, von Bertalanffy, Stresemann, and Hennig, and seriously overview the impression and effect of Nazism on evolutionary biology.
Chapter titles contain: The Evolutionary flip in Comparative Anatomy; Of elements and Wholes; The flip opposed to Haeckel; the increase of Holism in German Biology; the increase of German ("Aryan") Biology; Ganzheitsbiologie; The Ideological Instrumentalization of Biology; a brand new starting: From Speciation to Phylogenetics; and Grundzüge: The Conceptual Foundations of Phylogenetic Systematics.
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