"Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications draws equally from examples in botany and zoology to provide a modern account of cladistic principles and techniques. It is a core systematics textbook with a focus on parsimony-based approaches for students and biologists interested in systematics and comparative biology. Randall T. Schuh and Andrew V. Z. Brower cover the history and philosophy of systematics and nomenclature; the mechanics and methods of analysis and evaluation of results; the practical applications of results and wider relevance within biological classification, biogeography, adaptation and coevolution, biodiversity, and conservation; and software applications. This new and thoroughly revised edition reflects the exponential growth in the use of DNA sequence data in systematics. New data techniques and a notable increase in the number of examples from molecular systematics will be of interest to students increasingly involved in molecular and genetic work." -- Publisher

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Schuh, Randall T., Brower, Andrew V. Z.

Comstock Pub. Associates/Cornell University Press

2nd ed., Ithaca, New York State, December 16, 1999

Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3), Ithaca, 2009

United States, United States of America

2nd ed, Ithaca, 2009

22.0, 2009

HDSS

lg2529046

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

<p><em>Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications</em> draws equally from examples in botany and zoology to provide a modern account of cladistic principles and techniques. It is a core systematics textbook with a focus on parsimony-based approaches for students and biologists interested in systematics and comparative biology.</p>
<p>In this new and thoroughly revised edition, Randall T. Schuh and Andrew V. Z. Brower cover a wide range of topics: the history and philosophy of systematics and nomenclature; the mechanics and methods of analysis and evaluation of results; the practical applications of results and wider relevance within biological classification, biogeography, adaptation and coevolution, biodiversity, and conservation; and new software applications.</p>
<p>Updated to reflect the exponential growth in the use of DNA sequence data in systematics, the second edition of <em>Biological Systematics</em> features new data techniques and a notable increase in the number of examples from molecular systematics that will be of interest to students increasingly involved in molecular and genetic work.</p>

Introduction to systematics
Systematics and the philosophy of science
Characters and character states
Character polarity and inferring homology
Tree-building algorithms
Evaluating results
Nomenclature, classifications, and systematic databases
Historical biogeography and host-parasite coevolution
Ecology, adaptation, and evolutionary scenarios
Biodiversity and conservation.

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