Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic TY - JOUR JO - Anthropologie (Brno) TI - Methodological Problems of the Contemporary Systematics of the Family Hominidae AU - Mlíkovský J Y1 - 1983 VL - 21 IS - 1 PB - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic SN - 0323-1119 SP - 33 EP - 36 KW - Systematics KW - Methodological problems KW - Hominidae N2 - N2 - Methodological problems of the contemporary hominid systematics are pointed out and briefly discussed from the point of view of general systematics. The necessity is stressed (1) to distinguish between the evolution (of organism) and phylogeny (of taxa), (2) to distinguish between the phylogenetic and identification diagnoses, and (3) that taxonomic decisions should be made within properly arranged groups only, i.e. here within the Hominoidea, not within the Hominidae. ER -