 In his analysis of the period, David Hull (1988: ch. 5) titled one of his chapters “Systematists at War” and thus the name “The Systematics Wars” is sometimes used to describe the debates of the period. Hull (1970) influentially compared three “contemporary systematic philosophies”, typically called pheneticism, (or numerical taxonomy, after the seminal Sokal &amp; Sneath (1963) textbook of the same name), cladistics or phylogenetic systematics (after Hennig’s 1966 foundational text, an earlier version of which was published in German in 1950), and evolutionary systematics (following the lead of proponents like Simpson [1961] and Mayr [1969] and others).