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Walter Zimmermann and the Growth of Phylogenetic Theory

Michael J. DonoghueJoachim W. Kadereit

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Phylogenetic treePhylogeneticsEvolutionary biologyCore (graph theory)GeneticsPhylogenetic systematicsBiologyEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematics

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seminal theoretical paper, "Arbeitsweise der botanischen Phylogenetik und anderer Gruppierungswissenschaften" ("Methods of botanical phylogenetics and other grouping sciences"), first published in 1931. In this paper, Zimmermann clearly ex? pressed many of the underlying principles of phylogenetic systematics?ideas that were later taken up by Hennig and formed the core of his theory. Zimmermann also focused attention on several basic meth?

https://doi.org/10.2307/2992507