Models in Phylogeny Reconstruction
Series: Systematics Association Special Volumes; 52;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 November 1994
- Number of Volumes laminated boards
- ISBN 9780198548249
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages372 pages
- Size 239x163x26 mm
- Weight 716 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones, numerous line figures, tables 0
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Short description:
The last ten years have seen radical changes and controversy surrounding the methods used, problems to be addressed, and conclusions drawn in phylogenetic reconstruction. Views about the role of models in phylogenetic reconstruction range from their being minimal to central to the process. The predominant change has been broad acceptance of the use of cladistics for reconstructing relationships between taxa. However, the assumptions and data underlying the cladistic method remain in dispute, with different information originating from molecular, developmental, and evolutionary biologists.
This book examines models from a wide range of fields, at the same time providing illustrations of modern methods of classification and phylogeny reconstruction. As a result, information from development studies emerges as a significant factor in cladogram construction.
Illustrates modern methods of classification and phylogeny reconstruction
Provides new insights into the relative roles of developmental, molecular, and cladistic techniques
Long description:
Phylogenetic reconstruction is the process by which biologists try to identify the evolutionary pathways which organisms have followed. The process is accomplished by examining the relationships between living and extinct organisms.
With the advancement of mathematical, molecular, development, and cladistic techniques, the last ten years have seen radical changes in biologists' approaches to the problems of phylogenetic reconstruction with the advancement of mathematical, molecular, developmental, and cladistic techniques. Controversy has been abundant, and there has been a marked lack of integration of the various approaches. Views about the role of models have ranged from their being minimal to central to the process.
This book examines models from a wide range of fields, at the same time providing illustrations of modern methods of classification and phylogeny reconstruction. As a result, information from development studies emerges as a significant factor in cladogram construction.
Table of Contents:
The lessons of history
Explanation, description, and the meaning of 'transformation' in taxonomic evidence
Species and history
Models, modules, and molecules in morphogenesis
Partial truths: a review of the use of concepts in the evolutionary sciences
Morphogenetic cascades, genetic forms, and taxonomy
Rational taxonomy and the natural system as exemplified by segmentation and phyllotaxis
Methods for rooting cladistic trees
Ontogeny, rooting, and polarity
Null or minimal models
Three-item consensus: empirical test of fractional weighting
The role of models in reconstructing evolutionary trees
An empirical example of parsimony behaviour
DNA characters and cladistics: the optimization of functional history
Intraspecific phylogenetics: problems and solutions
Estimating evolutionary rates for discrete characters
Inferring evolutionary processes from molecular phylogenies
Cladograms and trees in biodiversity
