The First Darwinian Phylogenetic Tree of Plants

Uwe Hoßfeld; Elizabeth Watts; Georgy S Levit

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2016.12.002

The First Darwinian Phylogenetic Tree of Plants

Trends Plant Sci. 2017 Feb;22(2):99-102. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2016.12.002. Epub 2017 Jan 5.

Authors

Uwe Hoßfeld¹, Elizabeth Watts², Georgy S Levit³

Affiliations

¹ Arbeitsgruppe Biologiedidaktik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany; ITMO University, 191187 St. Petersburg, Russia.
² Arbeitsgruppe Biologiedidaktik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany.
³ Arbeitsgruppe Biologiedidaktik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany; ITMO University, 191187 St. Petersburg, Russia. Electronic address: gslevit@corp.ifmo.ru.

PMID: 28065652
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2016.12.002

Abstract

In 1866, the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) published the first Darwinian trees of life in the history of biology in his book General Morphology of Organisms. We take a specific look at the first phylogenetic trees for the plant kingdom that Haeckel created as part of this two-volume work.

Keywords: Ernst Haeckel; phylogenetic tree of plants; phylogeny..

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biological Evolution*
Models, Biological*
Phylogeny
Plants / classification*
Plants / genetics