Ronald A. Jenner (London Natural History Museum)

Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology

Linear Thinking about Branching Trees

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Produktbeschreibung

The first modern book to trace the history and current practice of phylogenetics as a storytelling discipline, dedicated to providing narrative explanations for the origin and evolution of taxa and their traits. This book is of great interest to biologists, palaeontologists, historians, and philosophers of science.

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Produktdetails

• Systematics Association Special Volume Series
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 206mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 1096g
• ISBN-13: 9781107105935
• ISBN-10: 1107105935
• Artikelnr.: 63624279

Autorenporträt

Ronald A. Jenner is Principal Researcher in the Department of Life Sciences at the Natural History Museum, London. His research focuses on animal phylogenetics, body plan evolution, the evolution of venoms, and conceptual issues in systematics. He has published extensively in the primary literature and co-authored Venom: The Secrets of Nature's Deadliest Weapon (The Natural History Museum, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

1. A history of narrative phylogenetics
2. From archetypes to ancestors
3. The emergence of lineage thinking
4. Ernst Haeckel's evolutionary storytelling
5. The epistemic rise of hypothetical ancestors
6. Intuiting evolution
7. Telling straight stories with fossils
8. Seeing animal ancestors in embryos
9. Ancestral attractions and phylogenetic folklore
10. Narrative shortcuts and phylogenetic faux pas
11. Taxic distortions of lineage thinking
12. Making sense with stories.