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The Diversification of the Amniotes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

Jacques A. Gauthier
Jacques A. Gauthier*
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Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California 94118-9661
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Publication of the English-language version of Hennig's (1966) Phylogenetic Systematics marked a turning point in the history of inquiry into the genealogy of life. Hennig catalyzed a long overdue reevaluation of systematic theory and method that should have followed immediately upon publication of Darwin's revolutionary ideas (de Queiroz, 1988). Hennig revitalized the field by taking the Theory of Descent to the core of systematics (de Queiroz, 1988, 1992)—the methods for investigating life's genealogy—and taxonomy—the methods for communicating the results of those investigations (de Queiroz and Gauthier, 1992). Unfortunately, the Darwinian revolution has yet to sweep aside all vestiges of nonevolutionary thinking in this field. To further that goal, and to provide an update of Gauthier et al. (1989), this contribution summarizes current progress in the phylogeny and taxonomy of the major clades of land-egg-laying, or amniote, vertebrates.

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Short Courses in Paleontology , Volume 7: Major Features of Vertebrate Evolution , 1994 , pp. 129 - 159
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