Robert Scotland (ed.)

Homology and Systematics

Coding Characters for Phylogenetic Analysis
Herausgeber: Scotland, Robert; Pennington, R Toby

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Systematics is the study of evolutionary relationships between animals and plants where shared similarities (homologues) can be suggestive of common ancestry. This book discusses coding of homologues and their impact on hypotheses.

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When looking at groups of organisms, shared characteristics (homologues) provide the raw data from which hypotheses of common ancestry may be suggested. In order to explore the relationship between homologues and particular hypotheses of common ancestry, complex matrices are devised, where homologues are coded, allowing theories of homology to be developed and tested. Practically nothing has been written about this matrix-building process, which is fundamental to our understanding of diversity and evolutionary history. This book fills the gap by discussing the ways observations are coded and the consequences for resulting hypotheses using case studies and theoretical examples.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 180mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780748409204
• ISBN-10: 0748409203
• Artikelnr.: 22772188

Autorenporträt

Robert Scotland, R. Toby Pennington

Inhaltsangabe

1. Homology and the inference of systematic relationships: some historical and philosophical perspectives
Andrew Brower 2. A survey for primary homology assessment: different botanists perceive and define characters in different ways Julie Hawkins 3. Experiments in coding multi-state characters Peter Forey and Iain Kitching 4. On characters and character states: do overlapping and non overlapping variation
morphology and molecules all yield data of the same value? Peter Stevens 5. Heuristic reconstruction of hypothetical-ancestral DNA sequences: sequence alignment versus direct optimisation Ward Wheeler 6. 'Cryptic' characters in monocotyledons: Homology and coding Paula Rudall 7. Process morphology from a cladistic perspective Peter Weston 8. Homology
coding and three taxon statement analysis Robert Scotland 9. Characters
homology and three-item analysis David Williams and Darrell Siebert Forey
The National History Museum
UK
Julie Hawkins
The University of Reading
UK
an Kitching
The Natural History Museum
UK
Toby Pennington
Royal Botanic Gardens
UK
Paula Rudall
Royal Botanic Gardens
UK
Robert Scotland
University of Oxford
UK
Peter Stevens
University of Missouri-St Louis
USA
Darrell Siebert
The Natural History Museum
UK
Peter Weston
Royal Botanic Gardens
UK
Ward Wheeler
American Museum of Natural History
USA
David Williams
The Natural History Museum
UK.