This new edition of a foundational text presents a contemporary review of cladistics, as applied to biological classification. It provides a comprehensive accou

Systematics underpins all of biology. Cladistics is a method of systematic classification that aims to reconstruct genealogies based on common ancestry, thus re

Cladistics is the method of choice for systematic classification and comparative studies in all fields of biology. In cladistics, reconstructed genealogies are

This new edition of a foundational text presents a contemporary review of cladistics, as applied to biological classification. It provides a comprehensive accou

The distribution and classification of life on earth has long been of interest to biological theorists, as well as to travellers and explorers. Cladistic biogeo