Morphology, Shape and Phylogeny
1st Edition
Published on 7. February 2002
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-415-24074-1 (ISBN)
Description
Generally, biologists and mathematicians who study the shape and form of organisms have largely been working in isolation from those who work on evolutionary relationships through the analysis of common characteristics. Increasingly however, dialogue between the two communities is beginning to develop - but other than a handful of journal papers, there has been no formal, published discussion on this subject. This timely book summarises the interdisciplinary work that has taken place to date and will stimulate additional research into these topics. Any scientist working on evolutionary relationships will find this volume invaluable.
Reviews / Votes
'The editors have identified an area that is ready for a major synthetic contribution, and they have assembled an impressive list of authors' - Mark Wilkinson, Natural History Museum, UKMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
803 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-24074-1 (9780415240741)
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Norman MacLeod | Peter L. Forey
Morphology, Shape and Phylogeny
E-Book
02/2002
CRC Press
€225.99
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Norman MacLeod | Peter L. Forey
Morphology, Shape and Phylogeny
E-Book
02/2002
CRC Press
€225.99
Available for download
Persons
Norman MacLeod, Peter L. Forey
Content
Introduction: Morphology, Shape and Phylogenetics. Homology, Characters and Continuous Variables. Quantitative Characters, Phylogenies, and Morphometrics. Scaling, Polymorphism and Cladistic Analysis. Overlapping Variables in Botanical Systems. Comparability, Morphometrics and Phylogenetic Systematics. Phylogenetic Signals in Morphometric Data. Creases as Morphometric Characters. Geometric Morphometrics and Phylogeny. A Parametric Bootstrap Approach to the Detection of Phylogenetic Signals in Landmark Data. Phylogenetic Tests for Differences in Shape and the Importance of Divergence Times: Eldredge's Enigma Explored. Ancestral States and Evolutionary Rates of Continuous Characters. Modelling the Evolution of Continuously Varying Characters on Phylogenetic Trees: the Case of Hominid Cranial Capacity. Summary.