"Exs" identified/papers of note

[StephanPickering@cs.com]

Rob DeSalle, Gonzalo Giribet, W.C. Wheeler
       2002A eds., Molecular systematics & evolution: theory & practice (Birkhauser-Verlag/EXS 92 Series/Experientia Supplements), 1-318
       2002B eds., Techniques in molecular evolution & systematics (Birkhauser-Verlag/Methods & Tools in Bioscience & Medicine), 1-450

Ranhy Bang, Rob DeSalle, W.C. Wheeler, 2002. Development, homology, and systematics. In: R. DeSALLE, G. GIRIBET, W. WHEELER 2002A:175-188
Gonzalo Giribet, Rob DeSalle, W.C. Wheeler, 2002. "Pluralism" and the aims of phylogenetic research. In: R. DeSALLE, G. GIRIBET, W. WHEELER 2002A:141-146
S.E. Stanley & J.L. Cracraft, 2002. Higher-level systematic analysis of birds: current problems and possible solutions. In: R. DeSALLE, G. GIRIBET, W. WHEELER 2002A:31-44

All three papers, both volumes, are well organized, complementing the philosophical exegeses of S.J. Gould's The structure of evolutionary theory and the Jacques Gauthier 2001 Ostrom volume. When the PhyloCode volume is published, the serious paleontologist will have yet another set of tools to weed out the taxonomic chaff and nomen dubia (I'm tired, so a correction is not necessary for my lapse of spelling) cluttering the dinosaur landscape. Hopefully, Greg Paul can be convinced to revise pre-K/T Dinosauria cladistics when the various valid taxa are re-described.

As a postscript, I should note that my Mutanda Dinosaurologica -- a revision of  the megalosaurs, some of the ceratosaurs, and a few others (viz. Sam Welles's unfinished task)  -- will in all probability be posted on the internet in a year, replete with photographs of the hypodigms. I am working through the arduous task of transferring my manuscript to a format presentable in Cyberia. For those interested, I can submit to the DML condensed descriptions of Liliensternus, Proceratosaurus, e.g., to correct the virtual absense of scientific overviews of these two taxa.