An exercise in rational taxonomy.

Abstract excerpt

The quest for a rational taxonomy of living forms began in the 17th century. Since the general acceptance of Darwin's theory of descent with modification, however, students of morphology became preoccupied with a systematics based on the genealogy of groups; and the rise of molecular phylogenies...

Topics

• Animals
• Classification
• Drosophila
• Ether
• Morphogenesis
• Mutation
• Phylogeny