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Stanley Ambrose and Michael Noll, Sloan Center for Asynchronous Learning Environments (SCALE): Anthropology, Our Place in Nature: Primate Anatomy and Systematics, Phylogenetic Systematics, Exercises. This page should help students grasp the fundamental concepts of systematics through a series of interactive cladistic exercises.

Michael J. Benton, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol: Stems, nodes, crown clades, and rank-free lists: is Linnaeus dead? Biological Reviews, vol. 75; November, 2000 (in press).

Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley: Cladistics in Brief. This web site provides an introduction to the philosophy, methodology, and implications of cladistic analysis.

The Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), University of California at Berkeley: Journey into the World of Phylogenetic Systematics. This module provides a brief introduction to the philosophy, methodology, and implications of cladistic analysis.

Philippe Choler, Laboratoire de Biologie des Populations d'Altitude, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble: Biologie Evolutive Végétale. Concepts and methods in evolutionary biology (in French). Navigate from "Plan du cours" (access to about 335 slides). Go to: La classification des êtres vivants.

Lynne M. Clos, Fossil News: What is Cladistics?

Mike Crisp, Society of Australian Systematic Biologists: Introductory Glossary of Cladistic Terms.

Niles Eldredge, American Museum of Natural History: Spectrum of Life. 28 major groups of organisms organized into basic divisions of life, explained in a nutshell.

Kevin C. Nixon, L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University Ithaca, NY: Paleobotany in cladistics and cladistics in paleobotany: enlightenment and uncertainty. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Volume 90, Issues 3-4, February 1996, Pages 361-373.

Peter Ommundsen, Selkirk College, Canada: Pronunciation of Biological Latin. Including taxonomic names of plants and animals.

E.O. Wiley, D. Siegel-Causey, D.R. Brooks, and V.A. Funk (page hosted by the University of Kansas Natural History Museum): The Complete Cladist: A Primer of Phylogenetic Procedures. The first edition of the book is available free in a portable document format that can be read by and printed from Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF file).

Mark P. Widrlechner, Laura C. Merrick and Donald N. Duvick, Agronomy Department, Iowa State University, Ames: Agronomy 523, Plant Genetic Resource Management. This is a graduate level course designed to impart an understanding and an appreciation of the principles and practices of in situ and ex situ plant genetic resource management. Go to: Plant Systematics and Evolution, Major philosophies of systematics. An Introduction to phenetic ("the organization of data on the basis of similarity for the purpose of obtaining a classification") and phylogenetic systematics ("classification systems which arrange natural groups of plants in an evolutionary sequence proceeding from the simplest to the most complex").