Comparative biology became overtly evolutionary in the mid-19th century following acceptance of the ideas of Charles Darwin by Ernst Haeckel. During the next 100 years, these evolutionary concepts changed and inspired Phylogentic Systematics - a body of work exemplified by the publications of Willi Hennig. This book is a synthesis and chronicle of a crucially important phase in the development of modern phylogenetic methodology.
Olivier Rieppel is Curator and Section Head of the Integrative Research Center at the Field Musum of Natural History in Chicago. His research includes studies of a number of reptile lineages secondarily adapted to life in the sea. Over the past twenty years, he has published revisions of Triassic stem-group Sauropterygia, marine reptiles that later gave rise to the more widely known plesiosaurs, pliosaurs and elasmosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous. He has collaborated with researchers at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology and at the Peking University in Beijing. In addition, he is involved in research on the origin of snakes. This collaborative research program seeks to integrate paleontology, comparative morphology and molecular systematics. The origin of snakes is a longstanding problem in the evolution of reptiles as part of the Tree of Life program sponsored by the US National Science Foundation. Finally, he has an active interest in the history and philosophy of comparative biology - the topic of this book.
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