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Comparative Biology: Form, Time and Space

Comparative Biology: Form, Time and Space COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY: FORM, TIME AND SPACE (1: Systematics and Biogeography; Cladistics and Vicariance by Gareth Nelson and Norman Platnick. Columbia University Press, New York, 1981. xi + 567 p. $ 35.00.) Progressing from the maxim that earth and life have evolved together, and taking their organizing principle from the title of a book by CROizaT (1964) Space, Time, Form: The Biological Synthesis, Gareth Nelson and Norman Platnick introduce the prob- lematic of their book-an inquiry into the theoretical structure of comparative biology and the nature of our knowledge of organismic diversity. Their treatise opens with an introductory chapter of some 50 + pages, providing the reader with what is essentially an extended precis of the book's contents. Comparative biology is resolved into the elements of Croizat's "alternative threefold parallelism" - Form, Time and Space-and selected subdisciplines-systematics, embryology, paleontology and biogeography---are introduced. This first chapter explores in a nov- el and entertaining way the problems posed by pattern analysis in the three realms, and outlines the methodological tools adopted for their resolution. Like much of the rest of the book, it is clearly written, with problems interestingly formulated and concepts simply, if sometimes controversially, outlined. For example, in a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Netherlands Journal of Zoology (in 2003 continued as Animal Biology) Brill

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Brill
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© 1981 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0028-2960
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1568-542X
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10.1163/002829682X00238
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COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY: FORM, TIME AND SPACE (1: Systematics and Biogeography; Cladistics and Vicariance by Gareth Nelson and Norman Platnick. Columbia University Press, New York, 1981. xi + 567 p. $ 35.00.) Progressing from the maxim that earth and life have evolved together, and taking their organizing principle from the title of a book by CROizaT (1964) Space, Time, Form: The Biological Synthesis, Gareth Nelson and Norman Platnick introduce the prob- lematic of their book-an inquiry into the theoretical structure of comparative biology and the nature of our knowledge of organismic diversity. Their treatise opens with an introductory chapter of some 50 + pages, providing the reader with what is essentially an extended precis of the book's contents. Comparative biology is resolved into the elements of Croizat's "alternative threefold parallelism" - Form, Time and Space-and selected subdisciplines-systematics, embryology, paleontology and biogeography---are introduced. This first chapter explores in a nov- el and entertaining way the problems posed by pattern analysis in the three realms, and outlines the methodological tools adopted for their resolution. Like much of the rest of the book, it is clearly written, with problems interestingly formulated and concepts simply, if sometimes controversially, outlined. For example, in a

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Netherlands Journal of Zoology (in 2003 continued as Animal Biology) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1981

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