Contributors vii
Preface xi
PART ONE: ON CHRIS
Bibliography of Works by Chris Humphries 1
1 Chris Humphries, Cladistics, and Connections 19
David M. Williams, Kåre Bremer, and Sandra Knapp
2 Ontogeny and Systematics Revisited: Developmental
Models and Model Organisms 35
Stephen Blackmore and Alexandra H. Wortley
3 Rooted in Cladistics: Chris Humphries,
Conservation—and Beyond? 47
Richard I. Vane-Wright
4 Do We Need to Describe, Name, and Classify All Species? 67
Quentin D. Wheeler
5 Floras to Phylogenies: Why Descriptive Taxonomy Matters 77
Sandra Knapp and J. Robert Press
PART TWO: BOTANY
6 Island Hot Spots: The Challenge of Climate Change 91
David Bramwell
7 Endemism and Evolution of the Macaronesian Flora 101
Mark A. Carine, Arnoldo Santos Guerra, I. Rosana Guma,
and J. Alfredo Reyes-Betancort
8 Early British Collectors and Observers of the
Macaronesian Flora: From Sloane to Darwin 125
Javier Francisco-Ortega, Arnoldo Santos-Guerra, Charlie E. Jarvis,
Mark A. Carine, Miguel Menezes de Sequeira, and Michael Maunder
PART THREE: CLADISTICS
9 Monophyly and the Two Hierarchies 147
Olivier Rieppel
10 Beyond Belief: The Steady Resurrection of Phenetics 169
David M. Williams, Malte C. Ebach, and Quentin D. Wheeler
11 Monographic Effects on the Stratigraphic Distribution
of Brachiopods 197
Gordon B. Curry
12 The Eukaryote Tree of Life 219
Diana Lipscomb
PART FOUR: BIOGEOGRAPHY
13 Tethys and Teleosts 243
Peter L. Forey
14 East–West Continental Vicariance in Eucalyptus
Subgenus Eucalyptus 267
Pauline Y. Ladiges, Michael J. Bayly, and Gareth J. Nelson
15 Wallacea Deconstructed 305
Lynne R. Parenti and Malte C. Ebach
Index 321
About the Editors 335