Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Patterns of classification 3. Patterns of phylogeny 4. Homology and the evidence for evolution 5. Geological and geographical evidence 6. Methods of classification: the development of taxonomy 7. Methods of classification: phenetics and cladistics 8. Methods of classification: the current debate 9. Classification and the reconstruction of phylogeny 10. Is systematics independent? 11. Mechanisms of evolution: Darwinism and its rivals 12. Mechanisms of evolution: the synthetic theory 13. Scientific knowledge 14. Philosophy and biology References Author index Subject index.