Wheeler, Quentin D. (Author)
Assis, Leandro (Author)
Rieppel, Olivier (Author)
Nature
Volume: 496
Pages: 295-296
Even as late as the 1970s, biologists were still grouping animals and plants largely on the basis of overall physical similarity and whether they possessed or lacked certain traits, such as a backbone or the ability to produce flowers. The German entomologist and palaeontologist Willi Hennig transformed the classification of organisms into the rigorous science of cladistics1, 2, 3, 4, 5. His book Phylogenetic Systematics6, published in 1966, laid out how to construct phylogenetic trees and how to use their branching patterns as the basis for classifications.
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