Systematics (eBook)

A Course of Lectures

Ward C. Wheeler (Autor)

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2012
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-30110-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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 super-tree methods, support measures, and other relevant topics are each covered in their own sections.

The work is not a bleeding-edge statement or in-depth review of the entirety of systematics, but covers the basics as broadly as could be handled in a one semester course. Most chapters are designed to be a single 1.5 hour class, with those on parsimony, likelihood, posterior probability, and tree searching two classes (2 x 1.5 hours).

Ward Wheeler is Professor in the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History. He is the author of several books, software packages, and over 100 technical papers in empirical and theoretical systematics.

Rezensionen

"Viewed as a series of lectures, this is clearly aimed at
graduate level courses in systematics, although some elements would
prove useful at undergraduate level." (British
Ecological Society Bulletin, 1 August 2013)

"If you want to teach yourself systematics, this book is
for you. It's just a series of lectures and exercises
compiled by Wheeler, one of the top systematic
biologists." (Teaching Biology, 20 December
2012)

"All things considered, I strongly recommend this work as
a textbook for those teaching in systematics, biologists and
palaeontologists alike . . . I would advise this book to graduate
students - MSc and above." (Journal of
Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 1 February
2013)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: advanced • Alignment • Analytical • Biowissenschaften • Book • Chapters • Course • Detail • Distance • Evolution • evolutionary biology • Evolutionsbiologie • Evolution / Systematik • Field • fundamental concepts • graduate • History • Including • introductory • Lectures • Level • Life Sciences • Methods • relevant topics • sections • species • Systematic • Systematics • Topics • use
• ISBN-10: 1-118-30110-2 / 1118301102
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-30110-4 / 9781118301104