Systematics
Subtitle: A Course of Lectures
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781118301104
Description: Systematics: A Course of Lectures is designed for use in an advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level course in systematics and is meant to present core systematic concepts and literature. The book covers topics such as the history of systematic thinking and fundamental concepts in the field including species concepts, homology, and hypothesis testing. Analytical methods are covered in detail with chapters devoted to sequence alignment, optimality criteria, and methods such as distance, parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches. Trees and tree searching, consensus and s
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