Taxacom: Evolution without black box software

[Kenneth Kinman]

Hi All,
        I was informed that the link in my post for "Framework for Post-Phylogenetic Systematics" doesn't work.  That is because a space was inserted between https://na and the rest of the link.  In any case, it only takes you back to the bibliography in the Wikipedia article.
        Unfortunately "Framework for Post-Phylogenetic Systematics" is a book, not an article, and is not available online as far as I know.  However, I found article which is Richard's response to a book review of his book, and it is available here:  https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fphytoneuron.net%2F2014Phytoneuron%2F110PhytoN-ParaphylophilyResponse.pdf&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C59291590d4ac4d157ee408dc6bc00538%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638503721731474453%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=fTGjBt4iOmx58aBHPWWkT6WwhF9MmTLk5Zz1LJE7dEo%3D&reserved=0

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Hi All,
       Thank you Richard.  I would also recommend this to cladist taxonomists.  I also enjoyed reading the Wikipedia article on "Evolutionary Taxonomy" which highlight his methods which encourage limited paraphyly (while traditional cladists tend to dismiss paraphyly as "unnatural").  Here is one section of that article (and weblink is given below):
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Efforts in combining modern methods of cladistics, phylogenetics, and DNA analysis with classical views of taxonomy have recently appeared. Certain authors have found that phylogenetic analysis is acceptable scientifically as long as paraphyly at least for certain groups is allowable. Such a stance is promoted in papers by Tod F. Stuessy[12]<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FEvolutionary_taxonomy%23cite_note-12&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C59291590d4ac4d157ee408dc6bc00538%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638503721731474453%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=xm4Obs59Yuwnrih%2FY7eUCltS0MWQWAGRR6hNnyYU6g0%3D&reserved=0> and others. A particularly strict form of evolutionary systematics has been presented by Richard H. Zander in a number of papers, but summarized in his "Framework for Post-Phylogenetic Systematics".[13]<https://na
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Briefly, Zander's pluralistic systematics is based on the incompleteness of each of the theories: A method that cannot falsify a hypothesis is as unscientific as a hypothesis that cannot be falsified. Cladistics generates only trees of shared ancestry, not serial ancestry. Taxa evolving seriatim cannot be dealt with by analyzing shared ancestry with cladistic methods. Hypotheses such as adaptive radiation from a single ancestral taxon cannot be falsified with cladistics. Cladistics offers a way to cluster by trait transformations but no evolutionary tree can be entirely dichotomous. Phylogenetics posits shared ancestral taxa as causal agents for dichotomies yet there is no evidence for the existence of such taxa. Molecular systematics uses DNA sequence data for tracking evolutionary changes, thus paraphyly and sometimes phylogenetic polyphyly<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPolyphyly&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C59291590d4ac4d157ee408dc6bc00538%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638503721731474453%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wB5SpkEWgs1G3aNxsFr8IFi3d93bLmmxqiqMVfIcgGM%3D&reserved=0
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I recommend to non-cladist taxonomists my recently published "Minimally monophyletic genera are the cast-iron building blocks of evolution" in the Ukrainian Botanical Journal 81: 87-99. 2024. It is available at  https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fukrbotj.co.ua%2Farchive%2F81%2F2%2F87&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C59291590d4ac4d157ee408dc6bc00538%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638503721731474453%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=C6nY1xGPvR%2BCOViRXJxYpuYWmxjb3aou%2BAqkDu3AFes%3D&reserved=0  also ResearchGate and Academia.edu. The paper promotes the genus as basic unit of evolution, standard morphology as used in taxonomy as key to understanding trait evolution, distinguishes process-based traits into novon and ancestron, and demonstrates that Bayesian support is high and firm because it involves conjugate priors.

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