Cladistics
2nd Edition
Published on 1. August 1998
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-19-850139-8 (ISBN)
Description
Cladistics aims to reconstruct genealogies based on common ancestry, thus revealing the phylogenetic relationships between taxa. Its applications vary from lingusitic analysis to the study of conservation and biodiversity, and it has become a method of choice for comparative studies in all fields of biology. This new edition of "Cladistics" - first published in 1922 - reflects the many changes and developments which have taken place in the field. It provides an account of the techniques and methods of modern cladistics and how to put them into practice.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
61 line illustrations, bibliography, index
ISBN-13
978-0-19-850139-8 (9780198501398)
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Content
Introduction to cladistic concepts; characters and character coding; cladogram construction, character polarity and rooting; optimization and the effects of missing values; measures of character fit and character weighting; support and confidence statistics for cladograms and groups; consensus trees; simultaneous and partitioned analysis; three-item statements analysis.