Tree Thinking: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology

First Edition

Publication Date: April 28, 2017

Hardcover ISBN: 9781936221165

Pages: 496

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...
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ISBN: 9781936221165
Tree Thinking: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology

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1. Introduction to phylogenetic trees and their importance in modern biology

2. Tree thinking and its importance in the development of evolutionary thought

3. What a phylogenetic tree represents

4. Trait evolution

5. Relatedness and biological classification

6. Gene trees and species trees

7. Phylogenetic inference with parsimony

8. Phylogenetic inference with distance, maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods

9. Statistical tests of phylogenetic hypotheses

10. Using trees to reconstruct evolutionary history

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