Classification, Convention and Logic
作者:
Søren Løvtrup,
期刊:
Zoologica Scripta
(WILEY Available online 1974)
卷期:
Volume 2,
issue 2‐3
页码: 49-61
ISSN:0300-3256
年代: 1974
DOI:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1974.tb00739.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractAn attempt has been made to establish axiomatically the principles of biological classification. It is shown that if phylogenetic classification is based on the notion of dichotomous origin of new taxa implied in Hennig's theory of cladism then the outcome must be a hierarchy in the form of a dichotomous dendrogram. Since the rules of traditional classification do not lead to this type of “phylogenetic tree” it is concluded that the conventions of ordinary systematics do not permit the erection of a “natural sy
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