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Gareth Nelson is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research spans several interdisciplinary topics, prominently including biomedical engineering, education, and computer science applications.

The scientist has contributed to various fields related to education and technology, with particular focus on biomedical and engineering education, higher education learning practices, and teaching and learning programming.

Recent publications by Gareth Nelson include the following papers:

  • Fostering the development of computer science graduate employability through agile projects, 2024, Journal of Further and Higher Education
  • Une approche vicariante de la biogéographie historique, 2023, Biosystema.
  • Les périls de la plésiomorphie: taxa largement répandus, dispersion et biogéographie phénétique, 2023, Biosystema.
  • La biogéographie historique, de Linné à Darwin, 2023, Biosystema.

Gareth Nelson has also contributed a book titled Systématique et Biogéographie, published in 2024 by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

The scientist's work is published frequently in venues such as:

  • Biosystema.
  • Journal of Further and Higher Education
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Collaborations have been established with several co-authors, including:

  • Norman I. Platnick
  • Jordan Allison
  • Abu Alam
  • Luke Gassmann
  • Kamal Zidan

Best Publications

  • Systematics and Biogeography

    Gareth Nelson;Norman I. Platnick

  • Systematics and Biogeography: Cladistics and Vicariance

    Gareth J. Nelson;Norman I. Platnick

  • A Method of Analysis for Historical Biogeography

    Norman I. Platnick;Gareth Nelson

  • CENTERS OF ORIGIN AND RELATED CONCEPTS

    Leon Croizat;Gareth Nelson;Donn Eric Rosen

  • Ontogeny, Phylogeny, Paleontology, and the Biogenetic Law

    Gareth Nelson

  • Biogeography of the Australian monsoon tropics

    David M.J.S. Bowman;G.K. Brown;G.K. Brown;Michael Braby;J.R. Brown

  • From Candolle to Croizat: comments on the history of biogeography

    Gareth Nelson

  • Australian biogeographical connections and the phylogeny of large genera in the plant family Myrtaceae

    Pauline Y. Ladiges;Frank Udovicic;Gareth Nelson

  • Vicariance Biogeography: A Critique.

    Oscar F. Francke;Gareth Nelson;Donn E. Rosen

  • Taxonomic Impediment or Impediment to Taxonomy? A Commentary on Systematics and the Cybertaxonomic-Automation Paradigm

    Marcelo R. de Carvalho;Flávio A. Bockmann;Dalton S. Amorim;Carlos Roberto F. Brandão

  • CLASSIFICATION AS AN EXPRESSION OF PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS

    Gareth Nelson

  • THREE-TAXON STATEMENTS: A MORE PRECISE USE OF PARSIMONY?

    Gareth Nelson;Norman I. Platnick

  • Evolution of Branchiostegals and Classification of Teleostome Fishes

    Gareth J. Nelson;D. E. McAllister

  • Outline of a theory of comparative biology.

    Gareth J. Nelson

  • CLADISTICS AND EVOLUTIONARY MODELS

    Gareth Nelson

  • Three-Area Statements: Standard Assumptions for Biogeographic Analysis

    G. Nelson;P. Y. Ladiges

  • Gondwana, vicariance biogeography and the New York School revisited

    G. Nelson;P. Y. Ladiges

  • 3 – HOMOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS

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  • Phylogenetic Relationship and Classification

    Gareth J. Nelson

  • Systematics and Biogeography: Cladistics and Vicariance

    Carl S. Keener;G. Nelson;N. Platnick

  • The Comparative Reception of Darwinism

    Gareth Nelson

  • Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference

    Gareth Nelson

  • The Phylogeny and Classification of the Tetrapods. Volume 1: Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds. Volume 2: Mammals

    Gareth Nelson

  • Darwin; Charles Darwin: A New Life; Charles Darwin: The Man and His Influence; One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought

    G. Nelson

  • The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London

    Gareth Nelson

Frequent Co-Authors

Pauline Y. Ladiges
Pauline Y. Ladiges University of Melbourne
Norman I. Platnick
Norman I. Platnick American Museum of Natural History
Ralf Britz
Ralf Britz Natural History Museum
Julián Faivovich
Julián Faivovich National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Charles D. Michener
Charles D. Michener University of Kansas
Olivier Rieppel
Olivier Rieppel Field Museum of Natural History
David B. Wake
David B. Wake University of California, Berkeley
John L. McBride
John L. McBride Bureau of Meteorology
John E. Randall
John E. Randall Bernice P. Bishop Museum
Robert R. Sokal
Robert R. Sokal Stony Brook University

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