cladistics

[Philippe Grandcolas]

Dear Taxacomers,

Doug Yanega has mentioned a book chapter by John Wenzel concerning
cladistics which is worth reading.

I am pleased to provide more information on the book contents for anyone who
can be interested:

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The Origin of Biodiversity in Insects: Phylogenetic Tests of Evolutionary
Scenarios.=20
edited by P. GRANDCOLAS
M=E9moires du Mus=E9um national d'Histoire naturelle, 1997, 173: 354 pp.

Preface. - L. PACKER, The relevance of phylogenetic systematics to biology:
examples from medicine and behavioral ecology. - J.W. WENZEL, When is a
phylogenetic test good enough? - Y. MICHALAKIS, E. WAJNBERG & C. BERNSTEIN,
On the utility of mathematical models and their use in evolutionary biology.
- P. GRANDCOLAS , P. DELEPORTE & L. DESUTTER-GRANDCOLAS, Testing
evolutionary processes with phylogenetic patterns: test power and test
limitations. - S. MORAND, Comparative analyses of continuous data: the need
to be phylogenetically correct. - N.M. ANDERSEN, Phylogenetic tests of
evolutionary scenarios: the evolution of flightlessness and wing
polymorphism in insects. - T. BOURGOIN, Habitat and ant-attendance in
Hemiptera : a phylogenetic test with emphasis on trophobiosis in
Fulgoromorpha. - Y. CAMBEFORT, Food choice and environment occupancy in
Afrotropical dung beetles: a phylogenetic study of two examples (Coleoptera,
Scarabaeidae). - J.M. CARPENTER, Phylogenetic relationships among european
Polistes and the evolution of social parasitism (Hymenoptera: Vespidae,
Polistinae). - C. DAUGERON, Evolution of feeding and mating behaviors in the
Empidoidea (Diptera : Eremoneura). - L. DESUTTER-GRANDCOLAS, Acoustic
communication in crickets (Orthoptera: Grylloidea): A model of regressive
evolution revisited using phylogeny. - I. FOLDI, Defense strategies in scale
insects: phylogenetic inference and evolutionary scenarios (Hemiptera,
Coccoidea). - P. GRANDCOLAS, What did the ancestors of the woodroach
Cryptocercus look like? A phylogenetic study of the origin of subsociality
in the subfamily Polyphaginae (Dictyoptera, Blattaria). - N.P. KRISTENSEN,
Early evolution of the Lepidoptera+Trichoptera lineage: phylogeny and the
ecological scenario. - L. MATILE, Phylogeny and evolution of the larval diet
in the Sciaroidea (Diptera, Bibionomorpha) since the Mesozoic. - A. NEL, The
probabilistic inference of unknown data in phylogenetic analysis. - J.S.
DEUTSCH, The origin of Hexapoda: a developmental genetic scenario. - P.
GRANDCOLAS, J. MINET, L. DESUTTER-GRANDCOLAS, C. DAUGERON, L. MATILE & T.
BOURGOIN, Linking phylogenetic systematics to evolutionary biology: toward a
research program in biodiversity.


Price: about 78 $,  at Backhuys Publishers, Dr. W. Backhuys, P.O. Box 321,
2300 AH Leiden, The Netherlands (fax: (31) 71 517 18 56)
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Philippe Grandcolas
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E.P. 90 CNRS, Laboratoire d'Entomologie
Museum national d'Histoire naturelle
45, rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, FRANCE

tel: (33) 1 40 79 38 48
fax: (33) 1 40 79 36 99
E-mail: pg at mnhn.fr
see MNHN on the Web: http://www.mnhn.fr/
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