Approaches to Classification.- The significance of phylogenetic classifications for systematic and evolutionary biology.- The value of natural classification.- Philosophy and method in biological classification.- The phenetics-cladistics controversy: a personal view.- Parsimony and paraphyly.- The future of numerical methods in plant systematics: a personal prospect.- A practical view of numerical taxonomy or should I be a pheneticist or a cladist?.- Taxa, taxonomists, and taxonomy.- Taxonomic Congruence.- Taxonomic congruence in the Caminalcules.- Taxonomic congruence — a reanalysis.- A simulation model for numerical taxonomic methods.- Taxonomic congruence: a brief discussion..- Algorithms optimizing the taxonomic information of classifications.- Prediction = Parsimony or Partitions?.- Information content and most parsimonious trees.- Numerical taxonomic evaluation of the taxonomic value of character suites in Tillandsia L.- Instability and incongruence in the brooms and gorses (Leguminosae subtribe Genistinae).- A view of some consensus methods for trees.- Distributions of distances between pairs of classifications.- Sampling distribution of consensus indices when all bifurcating trees are equally likely.- Clustering and Ordination.- Comparing classifications.- Cluster validity by concurrent chaining.- Characteristics of four external criterion measures.- Comparison of classifications with the data from which they are derived.- Sur la signification des classes issues d’une classification automatique de donnees.- Significance tests for clusters: overview and comments.- Inference procedures for the evaluation and comparison of proximity matrices.- Representing proximities data by discrete, continuous, or “hybrid” models.- Hierarchical cluster methods as maximumlikelihood estimators.- The occurrence of multiple UPGMA phenograms.- Reconstructing Phylogenies.- Wagner trees in theory and practice.- The causes of character incompatibility.- The uniquely derived concept as a basis for character compatibility analyses.- Theoretical and computational considerations of the compatibility of qualitative taxonomic characters.- Methods for inferring phylogenies: a statistical view.- A divisive algorithm for estimating parsimonious trees.- Relationships between transformation series and some numerical cladistic methods at the infraspecific level, when genealogies are known.- Analyzing Morphological Variation.- Some genetic aspects of morphometric variation.- Choice of descriptors in numerical taxonomy for static and dynamic shape analysis and recognition in biology.- A new coding procedure for morphometric data with an example from periodical cicada wing veins.- A quick method for making multistate characters out of continuous measurements.- Geographic Variation.- Analyzing character variation in geographic space.- A review of the numerical methods for recognizing and analysing racial differentiation.- Testing causal hypotheses of geographical variation.- Geographic variation in human gene frequencies.- Treeness tests and the problem of variable evolutionary rates.- Phylogenetic analysis of range expansion in the grass snake: reticulate evolution: primary and secondary contact zones.- Correspondence between geographic proximity and phenetic similarity among pinus brutia Ten. populations in southern Turkey.- Geographic distribution, polyploidy and pattern of flavonoids in Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud.- Biochemical Applications.- Molecular evolution of mammalian pancreatic ribonucleases.- Quantitative comparison of protein chain folds.- An approach to the taxonomy of malaria parasites on the basis of protein structures: adenylate kinase and glutathione reductase as examples.- Evolutionary relations of sulfate reducers.- Methods of flavonoid data analysis.- Phylogeny of Euphorbia interpreted from sterol composition of latex.- General Applications.- Numerical ecology: developments and recent trends.- Evolutionary trees and numerical taxonomy in studies of Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae).- Application of numerical techniques to the systematics of Toxorhynchites (Diptera: Culicidae).- A chromosome inversion pathway for some Chironomus species and two new techniques for analyzing similarity functions.- Multivariate analysis of variability associated with source of origin in the bacterium Simonsiella.- Reflections on the classifications of Yponomeuta (Yponomeutidae, Lepidoptera) and numerical taxonomic procedure.- A phenetic study of the genus Xylocopa (Hym.-Apoidea).- Numerical taxonomy of the genus Chaetomium Kze.- A numerical taxonomic study on Carthamus L. taxa in Turkey.- Multivariate analysis of the polyploid complex Valeriana officinalis (preliminary report).- Application of numerical taxonomic techniques to the study of behavior.- Numerical taxonomy of some Portuguese wines.- Computers in Systematics.- Image analysis.- Computers in systematics: one perspective.- Automated measurement with portable microcomputers.- The Vicieae database project: experimental uses of a monographic taxonomic database for species of vetch and pea.- List of Participants.
