Biological systematics : principles and applications /
Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications draws equally from examples in botany and zoology to provide a modern account of cladistic principles and techniques. It is a core systematics textbook with a focus on parsimony-based approaches for students and biologists interested in systematics...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Comstock Pub. Associates/Cornell University Press,
2009.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo 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
- Evaluating results
- Nomenclature, classifications, and systematic databases
- Historical biogeography and host-parasite coevolution
- Ecology, adaptation, and evolutionary scenarios
- Biodiversity and conservation.