Cladistics

[Eva Wallander]

According to NHBS http://www.nhbs.com/ a new edition of this book is out
now. Copy from their webpage:

Cladistics: The Theory and Practice of Parsimony Analysis
by Ian J Kitching, Peter L Forey, Christopher J Humphries and David M Williams

Series:   SYSTEMATICS ASSOCIATION SPECIAL VOLUMES SERIES 10

Standard textbook for the field. The new edition takes in all the
developments of the past five years. This book aims to present a thorough
introduction to the principles of parsimony, methods of tree-building, and
tree statistics, as well as looking at the use of cladistics in
biogeography and classification.
228 pages, figs, tabs.
Oxford U P
Price: GBP 45 - 2nd Edition 1998 - Order Code: #75604W hardback
Price: GBP 17.99 - 2nd Edition 1998 - Order Code: #75603W paperback

/Eva Wallander


>At 15:39 -0700 98.8.20, Jenny Xiang wrote:
>>  I remmember some time ago, someone suggested a good book on cladistics
>> for beginners.  Deos anyone still have that information? I would greatly
>> appreciate it if someone can forward that informaton to me or recommend
>> other such books.
>
>Hi Jenny,
>
>You can have another introductory textbook on cladistcs:
>
>P.L. Forey, C.J. Humphries, I.J. Kitching, R.W. Scotland, D.J. Siebeld and
>D.M. Williams 1992.
>_Cladistics: a practical course in systematics._
>Oxford University Press, Oxford, xii+191pp.
>Available in hbk/pbk. ISBN 0-19-857767-2 (hbk)
>
>A few years ago one of the authors told me that they had a plan for revising
>the above book (or writing a new book?) in near future. Does anyone have any
>information about it?
>
>Nobuhiro Minaka