A Cornucopia of Categories
- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Systematic Zoology
- Vol. 26 (3) , 349-352
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2412682
Abstract
Cladistic taxonomy is considered in detail. The criteria by which certain entities are selected for naming are discussed, and the suggestion is made that inferring some unsurprising relationship between 2 entities is insufficient reason for naming the unified pair.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Phylogenetic Classification of Fossils with Recent SpeciesSystematic Zoology, 1976