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© 2004 Society of Systematic Biologists
Accepting Partnership by Submission? Morphological Phylogenetics in a Molecular Millennium
Edited by Mike Steel: Associate Editor
University Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom; E-mail: raj35@cam.ac.uk
Received July 31, 2003; Revised October 5, 2003; Accepted November 26, 2003
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Organismic and morphological approaches to biology have lately come under attack from a variety of corners in both teaching and research. However, the main motivations for these attacks are not scientific but are instead reflective of economic pressures on teaching and the current fashionability of molecular approaches in research. For example, over the last few decades the number of students taking courses in invertebrate zoology in North American universities has declined significantly. This decline has largely been abetted by the abandonment of classes with small enrolments as increasingly more students are encouraged to take classes in the more fashionable disciplines of molecular and cell biology (Fautin and Watling, 1999). More recently, the fact that systematics is a time-consuming science dependent upon the mastering of specialist knowledge has been cited as a motivation for redirecting research toward DNA taxonomy (Pennisi, 2003; Tautz et al., 2003), and
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Numbers of Characters, Phylogenetic Accuracy, and Clade Support |
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Phylogenetic Accuracy
Quantitative Clade Support
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