Título: Systematics a Course Of Lectures | ||
Autor: Ward C. Wheeler | Precio: $1926.00 | |
Editorial: Wiley | Año: 2012 | |
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Sinopsis | ISBN: 9780470671696 | |
Systematics: A Course of Lectures is designed for use in anadvanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level course insystematics and is meant to present core systematic concepts andliterature. The book covers topics such as the history ofsystematic thinking and fundamental concepts in the field includingspecies concepts, homology, and hypothesis testing. Analyticalmethods are covered in detail with chapters devoted to sequencealignment, optimality criteria, and methods such as distance,parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches. Trees andtree searching, consensus and super-tree methods, support measures,and other relevant topics are each covered in their own sections.
The work is not a bleeding-edge statement or in-depth review ofthe entirety of systematics, but covers the basics as broadly ascould be handled in a one semester course. Most chapters aredesigned to be a single 1.5 hour class, with those on parsimony,likelihood, posterior probability, and tree searching two classes(2 x 1.5 hours). |