Models in Phylogeny Reconstruction
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Models in Phylogeny Reconstruction: (52 Systematics Association Special Volumes)

Models in Phylogeny Reconstruction: (52 Systematics Association Special Volumes)


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Phylogenetic reconstruction is the process by which biologists try to identify the evolutionary pathways which organisms have followed. The process is accomplished by examining the relationships between living and extinct organisms. With the advancement of mathematical, molecular, development, and cladistic techniques, the last ten years have seen radical changes in biologists' approaches to the problems of phylogenetic reconstruction with the advancement of mathematical, molecular, developmental, and cladistic techniques. Controversy has been abundant, and there has been a marked lack of integration of the various approaches. Views about the role of models have ranged from their being minimal to central to the process. This book examines models from a wide range of fields, at the same time providing illustrations of modern methods of classification and phylogeny reconstruction. As a result, information from development studies emerges as a significant factor in cladogram construction.

Table of Contents:
1: The lessons of history 2: Explanation, description, and the meaning of 'transformation' in taxonomic evidence 3: Species and history 4: Models, modules, and molecules in morphogenesis 5: Partial truths: a review of the use of concepts in the evolutionary sciences 6: Morphogenetic cascades, genetic forms, and taxonomy 7: Rational taxonomy and the natural system as exemplified by segmentation and phyllotaxis 8: Methods for rooting cladistic trees 9: Ontogeny, rooting, and polarity 10: Null or minimal models 11: Three-item consensus: empirical test of fractional weighting 12: The role of models in reconstructing evolutionary trees 13: An empirical example of parsimony behaviour 14: DNA characters and cladistics: the optimization of functional history 15: Intraspecific phylogenetics: problems and solutions 16: Estimating evolutionary rates for discrete characters 17: Inferring evolutionary processes from molecular phylogenies 18: Cladograms and trees in biodiversity


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198548249
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 52 Systematics Association Special Volumes
  • Weight: 716 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0198548249
  • Publisher Date: 24 Nov 1994
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 372
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Width: 163 mm


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