Biological Systematics: Principles and ApplicationsMost students who take a course in biological systematics do so to learn how to construct a data matrix and generate and evaluate a tree of phylogenetic relationships. Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications, by Randall T. Schuh, provides a welcome tool for these students and their instructors: it is a comprehensive and completely new textbook, the first of its kind since 1981. Systematics, the study of the reconstruction of the history of life, forms the underlying basis for organizing the knowledge of biology; cladistics is the diagrammatic method of charting phylogenetic relationships over time among evolving life forms. Cladistics analysis, the key tool used in this book, is also of great use outside pure systematic studies, and interests many students of population biology, ecology, epidemiology, and natural resources.Suitable for both graduate and advanced undergraduate students, Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications covers the core material for courses in biological systematics, with equal emphasis on both botany and zoology. It includes sections on the history and resources of the field; biological nomenclature; the theory of homology, character analysis, and computer algorithms; and the application of the results of systematic studies in the areas of biological classification, biogeography, adaptation and co-evolution, and biodiversity and conservation. |
Contents
Introduction to Systematics | 3 |
Systematics and the Philosophy of Science | 44 |
324 | 87 |
29 | 109 |
Formal Classifications and Systematic Databases | 165 |
Historical Biogeography and HostParasite Coevolution | 179 |
Glossary | 217 |
227 | |
234 | |
Common terms and phrases
algorithms alignment ancestor antennal apomorphic applied approach area cladograms areas of endemism argument assumptions attributes autapomorphic basis biogeography biological biota botany Chapter character data character-state cladistic analysis cladistic methods cladogram coding computer phylogenetics concept congruence consensus consistency index data sets derived discussion distributions DNA sequences evolution evolutionary taxonomists evolutionary taxonomy example Farris Fitch fossil genus Goloboff groups Heteroptera hierarchic holotype homology homoplasy hypotheses insects Kluge lineages literature Machilida matrix Mayr Mickevich monophyletic monophyly morphological multiple multistate characters names Nelson nodes nomenclature Nonetheless nucleotide observed optimization organisms original outgroup paraphyletic parsimony patterns phenetic phylogenetic analysis phylogenetic relationships Phylogenetic Systematics phylogeny plants Platnick polarity possible produce recognized represent scientific sequence data similarity species specimens structure Swofford synapomorphy Syst taxa taxon taxonomists techniques term terminal taxa tetrapod theory tion transformation tree University Press weighting Willi Hennig wings Zool zoology
References to this book
Phylogenetische Systematik Bernhard Wiesemüller,Hartmut Rothe,Winfried Henke No preview available - 2002 |