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Morphology, shape and phylogeny /
Provides a much needed summary of the interdisciplinary work between biologists and mathematicians who study shape and form of organisms and those who work on evolutionary relationships by analysis of common characteristic.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Taylor & Francis,
2002.
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| Series: | Systematics Association special volume ;
no. 64. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: morphology, shape, and phylogenetics / Norman MacLeod, Peter L. Forey
- Homology, characters and continuous variables / Christopher John Humphries
- Quantitative characters, phylogenies, and morphometrics / Joseph Felsenstein
- Scaling, polymorphism and cladistic analysis / Todd C. Rae
- Overlapping variables in botanical systematics / Geraldine Reid, Karen Sidwell
- Comparability, morphometrics and phylogenetic systematics / Donald L. Swiderski, Miriam L. Zelditch, William L. Fink
- Phylogenetic signals in morphometric data / Norman MacLeod
- Creases as morphometric characters / Fred L. Bookstein
- Geometric morphometrics and phylogeny / F. James Rohlf
- A parametric bootstrap approach to the detection of phylogenetic signals in landmark data / Theodore M. Cole III, Subhash Lele, Joan T. Richtsmeier
- Phylogenetic tests for differences in shape and the importance of divergence times: Eldredge's enigma explored / P. David Polly
- Ancestral states and evolutionary rates of continuous characters / Andrea J. Webster, Andy Purvis
- Modelling the evolution of continuously varying characters on phylogenetic trees: the case of hominid cranial capacity / Mark Pagel
- Summary / Peter L. Forey.