Biological Systematics
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Biological Systematics

Principles and Applications

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eBook - ePub

Biological Systematics

Principles and Applications

About this book

Understanding the history and philosophy of biological systematics (phylogenetics, taxonomy and classification of living things) is key to successful practice of the discipline.

In this thoroughly revised Third Edition of the classic Biological Systematics, Andrew V. Z. Brower and Randall T. Schuh provide an updated account of cladistic principles and techniques, emphasizing their empirical and epistemological clarity. Brower and Schuh cover:

-the history and philosophy of systematics
-the mechanics and methods of character analysis, phylogenetic inference, and evaluation of results
-the practical application of systematic results to:
-biological classification
-adaptation and coevolution
-biodiversity, and conservation
-new chapters on species and molecular clocks

Biological Systematics is both a textbook for students studying systematic biology and a desk reference for practicing systematists. Part explication of concepts and methods, part exploration of the underlying epistemology of systematics, This third edition addresses why some methods are more empirically sound than others.

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Subject Index

Italicized page numbers refer to glossary entries.
ACCTRAN optimization, 114, 361
ad hoc hypothesis, 361
Adams, Edward, 193
Adanson, Michel, 8
adaptational hypotheses
evaluation of, 309
additive binary coding, 361
additive character, 361
additivity, 146, 148
adjacency, 361
advanced, See derived
algorithm (for phylogenetic analysis), 361
alignment, of DNA sequences, 361
parsimony methods, 102
similarity methods, 102
allopatric populations, 221, 361
allopatric speciation, 361
allotype, 251
allozyme data
independent allele model, 106
shared allele model, 106
systematic approach, 106
allozymes, 105, 235, 361
alternative hypotheses
in parsimony, 58
Amphibian Species of the World, 277
anagenesis, 7, 16, 71, 361
ancestors
as hypotheses, 128, 137, 361
as inferences, 126, 138
as paraphyletic taxa, 139
in cladograms, 126, 138
ancestral, See primitive
ancestral polymorphism, 230, 362
antennal trichobothria
as ontogeneetic characters, 133
apomorphy, 362
Archaeopteryx lithographica, 138
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Table of contents

  1. Preface to the First Edition
  2. Preface to the Second Edition
  3. Preface to the Third Edition
  4. Acknowledgments to the First Edition
  5. Acknowledgments to the Second Edition
  6. Dedication and Acknowledgments to the Third Edition
  7. Section I Historical and Philosophical Background for Systematics
  8. Section II Cladistic Methods
  9. Section III Application of Cladistic Results
  10. Appendix
  11. Glossary
  12. Literature Cited
  13. Author Index
  14. Subject Index