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Recent Advances in Methods of Phylogenetic Inference

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It would be possible to form an impression that zoologists are not currently much interested in the phylogeny of mammals. For example among 111 papers scheduled for presentation at the 1973 meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, none were directly phylogenetic and only 9 (8%) dealt with systematics. Among 100 recent papers sampled at random in the journals Systematic Zoology and Evolution, 9 were on mammalian systematics in a rather narrow sense, but of these only 4 involved phylogeny. Nevertheless, the existence of the present conference and examination of a broader spectrum of the scattered literature do show that an interest in phylogeny does exist and that indeed this is now quite an active field of study and debate.

This paper was originally prepared early in 1974 as a preprint to be circulated at the conference. Although Dr. Simpson planned extensive rewriting following the conference, circumstances entirely beyond his control prevented him from making any of the desired changes. For this reason Dr. Simpson planned to withdraw his contribution, but at the request of the editors he graciously consented to have the original preconference paper published. For this and for his illuminating presence and participation throughout the conference, we the editors are deeply grateful to him.

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Simpson, G.G. (1975). Recent Advances in Methods of Phylogenetic Inference. In: Luckett, W.P., Szalay, F.S. (eds) Phylogeny of the Primates. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2166-8_1

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