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  • 1 - A History of Narrative Phylogenetics

  • Ronald A. Jenner, Natural History Museum, London
  • Book:
    Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology
    Published online:
    08 July 2022
    Print publication:
    28 July 2022, pp 1-7

  • Summary

    This chapter explains why I wrote this book and it provides an outline of each chapter. This book traces the history of the scientific discipline that I call narrative phylogenetics from its origin in the second half of the nineteenth century to today. Narrative phylogenetics is a storytelling discipline that is concerned with tracing the evolution of lineages, and it is driven by speculations about the evolutionary process and the evolutionary descent of characters from precursors in hypothetical ancestors. Although phylogenetics has developed enormously since then, narrative phylogenetic reasoning remains visible in the scientific debates of today.