E. H. W. Hennig
Emil Hans Willi Hennig (20 April 1913 – 5 November 1976) was a Germans, German biologist and zoologist who is considered the founder of Phylogenesis, phylogenetic systematics, otherwise known as cladistics. In 1945 as a POWs in World War II, prisoner of war, Hennig began work on his theory of cladistics, which he published in German in 1950, with a substantially revised English translation published in 1966. With his works on evolution and systematics he revolutionised the view of the natural order of beings. As a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, he specialised in dipterans (true flies). Hennig coined the key terms synapomorphy, Plesiomorphy and symplesiomorphy, symplesiomorphy, and paraphyly. He also asserted, in his "auxiliary principle", that "the presence of apomorphous characters in different species 'is always reason for suspecting kinship [i.e., that species belong to a monophyletic group], and that their origin by convergence should not be presumed a priori' (Hennig, 195 ...
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Dürrhennersdorf
Dürrhennersdorf ( hsb, Suche Hendrichecy) is a municipality in the district Görlitz (district), Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany. Notable people * Wolfgang Böhmer (born 1936), politician * Willi Hennig (1913–1976) biologist and founder of cladistics References

Populated places in Görlitz (district) {{Görlitz-geo-stub ...
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