In search of operational objectivity, some taxonomists, among whom Robert R. Sokal (1926-2012) and Peter H. A. Sneath (1923-2011) stand out, advoca...

In search of operational objectivity, some taxonomists, among whom Robert R. Sokal (1926-2012) and Peter H. A. Sneath (1923-2011) stand out, advocated that all biological characteristics should be used to group and organize biodiversity. The data should be, whenever possible, quantitative and analyzable with statistical methodologies to measure distances and perform groupings. This requirement implied that the most important thing was not evolutionary patterns, but only the general similarity between living beings and, therefore, there was no reason not to use homoplasies, in addition to homologies, in the process. (modified from Oswald et al. 2020. Principles of Zoological Systematics). The above excerpt refers to which school of systematics?


Traditional
Pan-biogeography
Phylogenetic
Phenetic
Evolutionary