Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

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...

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Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia, Pa. University of Pennsylvania Press [2016]
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
Beschreibung:1 online resource 50 illus
ISBN:9781512802450
DOI:10.9783/9781512802450

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