Author: Victor Albert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: genomics, phylogeny, parsimony
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2005-06-02
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 0198564937
ISBN-13: 9780198564935

Parsimony analysis (cladistics) has long been one of the most widely used methods of phylogenetic inference in the fields of systematic and evolutionary biology. Moreover it has mathematical attributes that lend itself for use with complex, genomic-scale data sets. This book demonstrates the potential that this powerful hierarchical data summarization method also has for both structural and functional comparative genomic research.

Author: Victor Albert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: genomics, phylogeny, parsimony
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0199297304
ISBN-13: 9780199297306

Parsimony analysis (cladistics) has long been one of the most widely used methods of phylogenetic inference in the fields of systematic and evolutionary biology. Moreover it has mathematical attributes that lend itself for use with complex, genomic-scale data sets. This book demonstrates the potential that this powerful hierarchical data summarization method also has for both structural and functional comparative genomic research.

Author: Elliott Sober
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: inference, evolution, parsimony, past, reconstructing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1991-02-05
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0262691442
ISBN-13: 9780262691444

Reconstructing the Past seeks to clarify and help resolve the vexing methodological issues that arise when biologists try to answer such questions as whether human beings are more closely related to chimps than they are to gorillas. It explores the case for considering the philosophical idea of simplicity/parsimony as a useful principle for evaluating taxonomic theories of evolutionary relationships. For the past two decades, evolutionists have been vigorously debating the appropriate methods that should be used in systematics, the field that aims at reconstructing phylogenetic relationship

Authors:Ian Kitching, Peter Forey, Christopher Humphries, Dav
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: systematics, association, special, analysis, parsimony, theory, practice, cladistics
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1998-09-10
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0198501382
ISBN-13: 9780198501381

Cladistics aims to reconstruct genealogies based on common ancestry, thus revealing the phylogenetic relationships between taxa. Its applications vary from linguistic analysis to the study of conservation and biodiversity, and it has become a method of choice for comparative studies in all fields of biiology. This new edition of Cladistics--first published in 1992--reflects the many changes and developments which have taken place in the field over the last five years, while retaining the clarity and readability that made the first edition so successful. For all students interested in the syste