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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953303903321

Titolo

Morphology, shape and phylogeny / / edited by Norman MacLeod, Peter L. Forey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Taylor & Francis, 2002

London ; ; New York : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2002

ISBN

1-134-55051-0

0-429-21744-7

1-134-55052-9

1-280-05253-8

9786610052530

0-203-16517-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

The Systematics Association special volume series ; ; 64

Altri autori (Persone)

MacleodNorman

ForeyPeter L

Disciplina

571.3

Soggetti

Morphology

Phylogeny

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This book arises from a symposium held at the University of Glasgow in August 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: morphology, shape, and phylogenetics; Homology, characters and continuous variables; Quantitative characters, phylogenies, and morphometrics; Scaling, polymorphism and cladistic analysis; Overlapping variables in botanical systematics; Comparability, morphometrics and phylogenetic systematics; Phylogenetic signals in morphometric data; Creases as morphometric characters; Geometric morphometrics and phylogeny; A parametric bootstrap approach to the detection of phylogenetic signals  in landmark data

Phylogenetic tests for differences in shape and the importance of  divergence times: Eldredge's enigma exploredAncestral states and evolutionary rates of continuous characters; Modelling the evolution of continuously varying characters on  phylogenetic trees: the case of Hominid cranial capacity; Summary; Index; Systematics Association



Publications

Sommario/riassunto

Generally, biologists and mathematicians who study the shape and form of organisms have largely been working in isolation from those who work on evolutionary relationships through the analysis of common characteristics. Increasingly however, dialogue between the two communities is beginning to develop - but other than a handful of journal papers, there has been no formal, published discussion on this subject. This timely book summarises the interdisciplinary work that has taken place to date and will stimulate additional research into these topics. Any scientist working on evolutionary relatio