Book
Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form: an Analytical Approach
Topics in geobiology, Springer US
2001
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0571-6
Abstract
Phylogenetic analysis and morphometrics have been developed by biologists into rigorous analytic tools for testing hypotheses about the relationships between groups of species. This book applies these tools to paleontological data. The fossil record is our one true chronicle of the history of life, preserving a set of macroevolutionary patterns; thus various hypotheses about evolutionary processes can be tested in the fossil record using phylogentic analysis and morphometrics. The first book of its type, Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form will be useful in evolutionary biology, paleontology, systematics, evolutionary development, theoretical biology, biogeography, and zoology. It will also provide a practical, researcher-friendly gateway into computer-based phylogenetics and morphometrics.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form: an Analytical Approach
- Creators
- Jonathan M AdrainGregory D EdgecombeBruce S Lieberman
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- Springer US; Boston, MA
- Series
- Topics in geobiology
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4615-0571-6
- ISBN
- 9781461505716; 1461505712; 9781461351375; 1461351375; 9781461505723; 9780306467219; 0306467216; 1461505720
- eISBN
- 9781461505716; 1461505712
- ISSN
- 0275-0120
- Number of pages
- 410 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2001
- Academic Unit
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984240881902771
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