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    Emil Hans Willi Hennig (20 April 1913 – 5 November 1976) was a German biologist and zoologist who is considered the founder of phylogenetic systematics...
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  • cladistics since 1985. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Willi Hennig Society. Cladistics publishes papers relevant to evolution, systematics...
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  • The Willi Hennig Society "was founded in 1980 with the expressed purpose of promoting the field of phylogenetic systematics." The society is represented...
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  • school of taxonomy derived from the work of the German entomologist Willi Hennig, who referred to it as phylogenetic systematics (also the title of his...
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  • producer and singer Willi Hennig (1913–1976), German biologist Willi Liebherr (born 1947), German-Swiss businessman and billionaire Willi Smith (1948–1987)...
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    until 1957 by his grandson, Julian Huxley. German biologist Emil Hans Willi Hennig (1913–1976) is considered to be the founder of cladistics. He proposed...
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  • Todd Hennig (born 1976), American drummer, Death by Stereo, and Nations Afire Walter Hennig (born 1972), South African businessman Willi Hennig (1913–1976)...
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    vertebrate animals. The word synapomorphy—coined by German entomologist Willi Hennig—is derived from the Ancient Greek words σύν (sún), meaning "with, together";...
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    The term symplesiomorphy was introduced in 1950 by German entomologist Willi Hennig. A backbone is a plesiomorphic trait shared by birds and mammals, and...
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    all of its extant or extinct descendants. The concept was developed by Willi Hennig, the formulator of phylogenetic systematics, as a way of classifying...
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    (2016-07-21). The Future of Phylogenetic Systematics: The Legacy of Willi Hennig. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107117648. Yeates, David K.; Wiegmann...
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  • foundational for modern phylogenetics. Though they were later implemented by Willi Hennig in his fundamental work on phylogenetic systematics, Zimmermann's contributions...
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    accompanying the rise of cladistics, having been coined by zoologist Willi Hennig to apply to well-known taxa like Reptilia (reptiles), which is paraphyletic...
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    prefix pará. On the broadest scale, definitions fall into two groups. Willi Hennig (1966:148) defined monophyly as groups based on synapomorphy (in contrast...
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    taxon. The word autapomorphy, introduced in 1950 by German entomologist Willi Hennig, is derived from the Greek words αὐτός, autos "self"; ἀπό, apo "away...
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  • 1961) 1913 – Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor and poet (d. 1986) 1913 – Willi Hennig, German biologist and entomologist (d. 1976) 1914 – Betty Lou Gerson...
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  • cladistic algorithms became available which could test the suggestions of Willi Hennig. The results of cladistic analyses were proven superior to those of phenetic...
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    bee flies are the most uncertain of any family of lower Brachycera. Willi Hennig (1973) placed the bee flies in the superfamily of Nemestrinoidea, on...
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    among other research topics. The studies on dipteran relationships by Willi Hennig helped in the development of cladistics, techniques that he applied to...
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  • president of the International Society for Invertebrate Morphology, of the Willi Hennig Society, and vice-president of the Sociedad Española de Malacología (Spanish...
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  • Draco boschmai (category Taxa named by Willi Hennig)
    Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Draco boschmai, p. 32). Hennig W (1936). "Revision der Gattung Draco (Agamidae)". Temminckia, Leiden 1:...
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    (Teleostei: Chaetodontidae). Cladistics the International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society., 19(4), 287–306. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0748-3007(03)00070-7...
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    insect superorder, established by S. G. Kiriakoff, but often credited to Willi Hennig in his revision of insect taxonomy for two sister orders: Lepidoptera...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Systematics. Society of Australian Systematic Biologists Society of Systematic Biologists The Willi Hennig Society...
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  • evolutionary taxonomy and the phylogenetic systematics derived from Willi Hennig, differ in the use of the word "monophyletic". For evolutionary systematicists...
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  • Rhinopomyzella (category Taxa named by Willi Hennig)
    Jamaica, Ecuador, Brazil Rhinopomyzella albimanus Hennig, 1969 Rhinopomyzella nigrimana Hennig, 1969 Hennig, W. (1969). "Neue Gattungen und Arten der Acalypteratae"...
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  • Glaesoncodes (category Taxa named by Willi Hennig)
    Acroceridae Subfamily: Ogcodinae Genus: †Glaesoncodes Hennig, 1968 Species: †G. completinervis Binomial name †Glaesoncodes completinervis Hennig, 1968...
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    used in a modern context. In cladistics, originating in the work of Willi Hennig, 1950 onwards, each taxon is grouped so as to include the common ancestor...
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  • Ceroxys amurensis (category Taxa named by Willi Hennig)
    picture-winged fly in the genus Ceroxys of the family Tephritidae. Russia, China. Hennig, W. (1939). "46/47. Otitidae (46. Otitidae und 47. Pterocallidae). In: E...
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    area, which will be the center of origin of that group. It is named for Willi Hennig, who devised the rule. Jordan's rule states that there is an inverse...
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