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Biological systematics : principles and applications /
"The book addresses the methods and philosophy of biological systematics (phylogenetics, taxonomy, and classification of living things). In particular, it emphasizes an empirical, cladistic approach, which espouses minimization of ad hoc hypotheses of evolution via the parsimony criterion for s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2021.
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| Edición: | Third edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction to systematics
- Systematics and the philosophy of science
- Characters and character states
- Character polarity and inferring homology
- Tree-building algorithms and philosophies
- Evaluating results
- Species
- Nomenclature, classifications, and systematic databases
- The integration of phylogenetics, historical biogeography and host
- Parasite coevolution
- Ecology, adaptation, and evolutionary scenarios
- Understanding molecular clocks and time trees
- Biodiversity and conservation
- Parsimony and the future of systematics.