Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification
ISBN: 9781512802450
Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / University of Pennsylvania Press
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The dynamic aspect of biological systems--the birth, growth, and death of individual organisms, the evolution of one form into another over time--has formed the basis for metaphors used in many fields for both artistic and heuristic purposes. Cladistic classification uses a tree whose branch points are based on the possession of derived or relatively recent characteristics, rather than primitive ones.

Hoenigswald Henry M. :

Henry M. Hoenigswald was Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.


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