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Tree Thinking: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology
Baum and Smith, both professors evolutionary biology and researchers in the field of systematics, present this highly accessible introduction to phylogenetics and its importance in modern biology. Ever since Darwin, the evolutionary histories of organisms have been portrayed in the form of branching...
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Greenwood Village
Roberts
2012
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- Introduction. Phylogenetic trees and their importance in modern biology
- Interpreting trees. Tree thinking and its importance in the development of evolutionary thought ; What a phylogenetic tree represents ; Trait evolution ; Relatedness and taxonomy ; Gene trees and species trees
- Inferring trees. Phylogenetic inference with parsimony ; Phylogenetic inference with distance, maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods ; Statistical tests of phylogenetic hypotheses ; Using trees to study character evolution ; Using trees to study space, time, and evolutionary diversification.