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almafu_9958353451902883
Format:
1 online resource :
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50 illus.
ISBN:
9781512802450
Content:
The dynamic aspect of biological systems--the birth, growth, and death of individual organisms, the evolution of one form into another over time--has formed the basis for metaphors used in many fields for both artistic and heuristic purposes. Cladistic classification uses a tree whose branch points are based on the possession of derived or relatively recent characteristics, rather than primitive ones.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Contributors --
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Preface --
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Part One: Historical Perspectives --
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1 Biological Analogy in the Study of Language Before the Advent of Comparative Grammar --
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2 The Life and Growth of Language: Metaphors in Biology and Linguistics --
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3 “Organic” and “Organism” in Franz Bopp --
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4 On Schleicher and Trees --
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5 A Legal Point --
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6 Haeckel's Variations on Darwin --
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Part Two: Methodology --
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7 Cladistic and Paleobotanical Approaches to Plant Phylogeny --
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8 Pattern and Process: Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Botany --
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9 Characters and Cladograms: Examples from Zoological Systematics --
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10 Reconstructing Genetic and Linguistic Trees: Phenetic and Cladistic Approaches --
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11 Of Phonetics and Genetics: A Comparison of Classification in Linguistic and Organic Systems --
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12 The Upside-down Cladogram: Problems in Manuscript Affiliation --
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13 Representing Language Relationships --
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14 Language Family Trees, Topological and Metrical --
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15 Computational Complexity and Cladistics --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-0-8122-8014-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9781512802450
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512802450
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512802450
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