Colin Patterson (ed.)

Molecules and Morphology in Evolution

Conflict or Compromise?
Herausgeber: Patterson, Colin

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Produktbeschreibung

This book reviews the phylogenetic data derived from molecular methods and from classical morphology, and analyses the contribution each can make to the study of evolution. Molecular biology and traditional areas of evolutionary biology such as morphology have not enjoyed a particularly happy marriage. Molecular biologists have the advantages of modernity, high technology, and visibility: their results often seem to represent the cutting edge of science, superseding and outmoding what went before. Nevertheless, this book shows that the partnership between those who study morphology and those who study molecules is alive and well: reconciliation is possible, necessary and inevitable because the problems involved in reconstructing the history of life do not change, whatever the source of the data. In eight chapters, leading exponents of molecular and morphological methods explore phylogeny, starting with hominoids, the most thoroughly studied group, then working outwards through the vertebrates, and ending at the level of the prokaryote and eukaryote kingdoms. Theoretical problems are also covered, including the concepts of homology, the molecular clock and neutral or 'non-Darwinian' evolution. The book concludes with an example in laboratory mice where the reliability of different methods for determining phylogeny can be tested against a known genealogy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1987
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780521338608
• ISBN-10: 0521338603
• Artikelnr.: 21279066

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Introduction Colin Patterson; 2. Aspects of hominoid phylogeny
Peter Andrews; 3. Molecular and morphological analysis of high-level
mammalian interrelationships Malcolm C. McKenna; 4. Avian phylogeny
reconstructed from comparisons of the genetic material, DNA Charles G.
Sibley and Jon E. Ahlquist; 5. Tetrapod relationships: the molecular
evidence M. J. Bishop and A. E. Friday; 6. Pattern and process in
vertebrate phylogeny revealed by coevolution of molecules and morphologies
Morris Goodman, Michael M. Miyamoto and John Czelusniak; 7. Macroevolution
in the microscopic world C. R. Woese; 8. Divergence in inbred strains of
mice: a comparison of three different types of data Walter M. Fitch and
William R. Atchley; Index.