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**Anatoly Shatalkin's Taxonomy: Foundations, Principles, and Rules – A Systematic Blueprint for Biological Classification**
This comprehensive work systematically presents the core principles of taxonomy, its major achievements, and its most significant challenges. Rather than following traditional classification-based approaches, the author refocuses attention on the concept of the natural system, positioning it as the key to resolving many taxonomic dilemmas.
Among the critical issues explored are the distinction between taxonomic and non-taxonomic groups, the relationship between taxon and system, and the ontological characterization of taxa through set-theoretic language or alternative approaches involving natural kinds, individuals, and mereological objects. The book also addresses monotypic groups, the concept of rank, the differences between similarity and kinship trees, the problem of paraphyly, and the objective status of systematic groups and their hierarchies.
Building on this analysis, Shatalkin formulates a compositional structure for the System of Organisms, rooted in the two-dimensional nature of ontogeny. This composite character is further reflected in A.N. Severtsov’s ideas on the two-dimensional organization of phylogenesis and his theory of aromorphosis, which describes alternating stages of morphophysiological progress and adaptation.
Designed for a wide audience of biologists and anyone interested in classification problems, this book offers a rigorous, thought-provoking foundation for understanding how living systems are organized and named.
