Lecture notes - these are not complete as much more detail is obtined during the lectures

Lectures 1-3 Pdf file


Lectures 4-8 Pdf file

Lectures - continuing - how to do phylogenetics. 

Maddison et. al., 1984. Systematics - pdf file


Watrous and Wheeler, 1981. Pdf file

Cracraft, J.Cracraft.pdf


Rivas, 1964 - Definition of the term "Syntopic" Pdf file

Kluge's 1989 Syst. Zool. Paper Kluge, A. 1989. A concern for evidence and a phylogenetic hypothesis of relationships among Epicrates (Boidae: Serpentes). Systematic Zoology. 38: 7-25.

Kluge97.pdf file Kluge, A. 1997. Testability and the refutation and corroboration of cladistic hypotheses. Cladistics. 13: 81-96.
Kluge89.pdf file Kluge, A. 1998a. Total evidence or taxonomic congruence: Cladistics or consensus classification. Cladistics. 14:151-158.
kluge98b.Pdf file Kluge, A. 1998b. Sophisticated falsification and research cycles: Consequences for differential character weighting in phylogenetic systematics. Zoologica Scripta. 26: 349-360.
kluge99.Pdf file Kluge, A. 1999. The science of phylogenetic systematics: Explanation, prediction, and test. Cladistics. 15: 429-436.
Pdf file Kluge, A. 2001. Philosophical conjectures and their refutation. Systematic Biology. 50: 322-330.

This paper is what Kluge is writing about (above) de Queiroz, K. and Poe, S. 2001. Philosophy and phylogenetic inference: A comparison of likelihood and parsimony methods in the context of Karl Poppers writings on corroboration. Systematic Biology, 50: 305-321.