Foundations of Systematics and Biogeography

David M. Williams is a diatom researcher and Head of Global BiodiversityGroup in the Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, London.He has published over 150 scientific papers, including 6 books. Amonghis books he is a co-author of the standard text Cladistics: The Theoryand Practice of Parsimony Analysis (1992) and co-editor on Models inPhylogeny Reconstruction (1994) and Milestones in Systematics (2004). Heis interested in the history and theory of systematics and biogeographyand the systmatics of diatoms. Malte C. Ebach is the WP5 Scientific Coordinator for the EuropeanDistributed Institute of Taxonomy at the Botanic Garden and BotanicalMuseum Berlin-Dahlem. His interests include the history and theory ofcomparative biology (systematics and biogeography), Goethe's way ofScience and when he has the time, trilobite taxonomy.Williams, David M. is the author of 'Foundations of Systematics and Biogeography', published 2007 under ISBN 9780387727288 and ISBN 0387727280.