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Norman I. Platnick

Researcher at American Museum of Natural History

Publications -  266
Citations -  9240

Norman I. Platnick is an academic researcher from American Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genus & Oonopidae. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 264 publications receiving 8906 citations.

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A Method of Analysis for Historical Biogeography

TL;DR: Analysis of four-taxon statements indicates that the availability of structurally different patterns and of groups that can serve as adequate tests of the generality of those patterns increases with the addition of taxa to the hypothesis, and that neither extinction nor the failure of some groups to respond to given dispersal or vicariance events interferes with the analysis.
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The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target‐gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling

TL;DR: A phylogenetic analysis of spiders using a dataset of 932 spider species, representing 115 families (only the family Synaphridae is unrepresented), 700 known genera, and additional representatives of 26 unidentified or undescribed genera is presented.
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The intellectual content of taxonomy: a comment on DNA taxonomy

TL;DR: 1 Tautz, D. et al. (2002) DNA points the way ahead in taxonomy; a plea for DNA taxonomy.