Models in Phylogeny Reconstruction: 52 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0198548249 ISBN 13: 9780198548249

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 1994

Riassunto

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.

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Contenuti

• 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

Product Description

There have been radical changes and controversy surrounding the methods used, problems to be addressed, and conclusions drawn in phylogenetic reconstruction. This book looks at all these changes and provides an up-to-date review of the subject. Views about the role of models in phylogenetic reconstruction range from their being minimal to central to the process. The predominant change has been broad acceptance of the use of cladistics for reconstructing relationships between taxa. However, the assumptions and data underlying the cladistic method remain in dispute, with different information originating from molecular, developmental, and evolutionary biologists.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0198548249
• ISBN 13: 9780198548249
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 372
• Redattore: Scotland Robert W., Siebert Darrell J., Williams David M.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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