Morphology, Shape and Phylogeny

by Norman MacLeod (Editor), Peter L. Forey (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780203165171
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	02/07/2002
Series:	Systematics Association Special Volumes
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	318
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Norman MacLeod, Peter L. Forey

Table of Contents

Introduction N. Macleod and P. Forey

Homology, Characters and Continuous Variables C.J. Humphries
Quantitative Characters, Phylogenies and Morphometrics J. Felsenstein
Scaling, Polymorphism, and Cladistic Analysis T.C. Rae
Comparability, Morphometrics and Phylogenetic Systematics D.L. Swiderski, M.L. Zelditch and W.L. Fink
Phylogenetic Signals in Morphometric Data N. MacLeod
Creases as Morphometric Characters F.L. Bookstein
Geometric Morphometrics and Phylogeny F. James Rohlf
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 A.J. Webster and A. Purvis
Overlapping Variables in Botanical Systematics G. Reid and K. Sidwell
Modelling the Evolution of Continuously Varying Characters on Phylogenetic Trees: the Case of Hominid Cranial Capacity Mark Pagel
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