Milestones in Systematics. 2004. (Systematic Assoc. Special Vol. 67). XVII, 290 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Reviews the major issues in systematic theory and practice that havedriven the working methods of systematics during the 20th century, andtakes a forward look at the issues most likely to preoccupy systematists in the immediate future.- Contents: Introd./ Setting UpMilestones: Sneath on Adanson and Mayr on Darwin/ Launching theSociety of Systematic Zoology in 1947/ Explanations in Systematics/What Happens if the Language of Science Happens to Break Down inSystematics? - A Popperian Perspective/ Hennig's PhylogeneticSystematics Brought Up-to-date/ The Arrested Development of Cladistics/Parsimony and Computers/ Homology and Homologues, Cladistics andPhenetics: 100 Years of Progress/ From Dispersal to GeographicCongruence: Comments on Cladistic Biogeography in the 20th Century/The Fall and Rise of Evolutionary Developmental Biology.