Analytical Notes on Nelson and Platnick's Systematics and Biogeography (1981)

The following pdf files (scanned handwritten documents) are my Analytical Notes (total 219 pages [= 40.96 MB]) written from 1982 to 1984 when I was reading Gareth Nelson and Norman Platnick's book: Systematics and Biogeography: Cladistics and Vicariance (1981), Columbia University Press, New York. The book is now freely downloadable from University of California Press website [dead link at present]. Part of these Analytical Notes was included in my doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1985: N. Minaka, Studies on the Cladistic Approach to the Classification in Agro-Biology [in Japanese: CiNii Dissertations].

• Note 1: Natural Kind (1 p.) - date unknown
• Note 2: Cladistic Component Analysis (11 pp.) - 17 October 1982
• Note 3: Cladogram and Information (7 pp.) - 20 October 1982
• Note 4: Trees and Information (19 pp.) - 16 October 1982
• Note 5: Information and Components (31 pp.) - 16 November 1982
• Note 6: Multiple Branching (10 pp.) - 5 November 1982
• Note 7: Cladistic Analysis and Synthesis (26 pp.) - 14 November 1982
• Note 8: General Charcters (14 pp.) - 1 February 1983
• Note 9: Biogenetic Law and Outgroup Comparison (27 pp.) - 4 March 1983
• Note 10: [missing]
• Note 11: Consensus n-Tree (11+2 pp.) - 11 October 1983
• Note 12: Set-theoretical Foundations of Transformed Cladistics (5 pp.) - 17 October 1983
• Note 13: Network Representation (13 pp.) - 2 February 1984
• Note 14: Biogeographic Component Analysis (14 pp.) - 4 February 1984
• Note 15: Widespread Taxa (9 pp.) - 27 February 1984
• Note 16: Widespread Taxa with Redundancy (19 pp.) - 18 May 1984