TY - JOUR
AB - VOL. 38 294 SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY phies," and vice versa. His view is at odds with cla- It would be helpful to know history's final judge- distics as I understand the subject, according to which ment of Sober's effort. That knowledge would amount symplesiomorphy is, and exactly equals, synapomor- to a touch of perfection, but no more than we would phy at a higher level of generality. A related problem enjoy with knowledge of probabilities, or probabili- is his distinction between matching and homology: ties of probabilities, of character change. In a dust- jacket blurb, Arnold Kluge sees the book as "an im- A matching confirms, even when one has no idea whether portant correction to the drift of systematics away it is a homology.... Homologies are not observed in ad- from evolutionary theory." To the philosophically vance of the genealogies we wish to infer; if only presumed inclined, the book is worth a careful read, if only homologies could count as evidence of relationship, this because it is one of few efforts of that sort. Still, I would threaten to make genealogical inference visciously searched in vain for a correction. However well in- circular.... It is false that only 
TI - Books Received
JF - Systematic Biology
DO - 10.1093/syszoo/38.3.294
DA - 1989-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/books-received-OmVrZNTASr
SP - 294
EP - 294
VL - 38
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -