The Willi Hennig Society "was founded in 1980 with the expressed purpose of promoting the field of phylogenetic systematics.
"[1] The society is represented by phylogenetic systematists managing and publishing in the peer-reviewed journal titled Cladistics.
The last public clash occurred at the 13th Annual Numerical Taxonomy Conference at the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University in October 1979.
Seventy eight systematists from Great Britain, Sweden, Canada, and the United States gathered at the University of Kansas, to inaugurate the Willi Hennig Society.
[8][9] The Systematics Agenda 2000 is ongoing and has set out to deliver on the following mission statements: The Willi Hennig Society publishes the journal Cladistics.