Morphology, Shape and Phylogeny (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Macleod, Norman; Forey, Peter L.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 and will stimulate additional research into these topics. Any scientist working on evolutionary relationships will find this volume invaluable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780203165171
• Artikelnr.: 38171469

Autorenporträt

Norman MacLeod, Peter L. Forey

Inhaltsangabe

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.