Phylogenetic analysis and morphometrics have been developed by biologists into rigorous analytic tools for testing hypotheses about the relationships between groups of species. This book applies these tools to paleontological data. The fossil record is our one true chronicle of the history of life, preserving a set of macroevolutionary patterns; thus various hypotheses about evolutionary processes can be tested in the fossil record using phylogentic analysis and morphometrics. The first book of its type, Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form will be useful in evolutionary biology, paleontology, systematics, evolutionary development, theoretical biology, biogeography, and zoology. It will also provide a practical, researcher-friendly gateway into computer-based phylogenetics and morphometrics.
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This book attempts to provide an overview of the morphometric and phylogenetic perspectives in paleobiology. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
general areagram, partial warp analysis, deformational homology, dissimilarity axes, eigenshape analyses, eigenshape axes, eigenshape axis, medial ocelli, subtree analysis, phenetic disparity, partial warps, electronic relational database, glabellar length, eigenshape analysis, olenelloid trilobites, trilobite clades, eigenshape method, pure birth model, character transformation series, thoracic segment numbers, geographic congruence, empirical morphospaces, schizochroal eye, disparity indices, unconstrained areas Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Journal of Paleontology, Columbia University Press, British Columbia, Academic Press, Middle Devonian, North America, Lower Devonian, New South Wales, University of Kansas, Conway Morris, Mackenzie Mountains, United States, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Arctic, Kluwer Academic, Paleontological Society, Mathematical Geology, Oxford University Press, Plenum Publishers, Distance-Singular Vector, Natural History Museum, San Francisco, Palaeontographica Canadiana, University of Chicago Press New!
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general areagram, partial warp analysis, deformational homology, dissimilarity axes, eigenshape analyses, eigenshape axes, eigenshape axis, medial ocelli, subtree analysis, phenetic disparity, partial warps, electronic relational database, glabellar length, eigenshape analysis, olenelloid trilobites, trilobite clades, eigenshape method, pure birth model, character transformation series, thoracic segment numbers, geographic congruence, empirical morphospaces, schizochroal eye, disparity indices, unconstrained areas Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Journal of Paleontology, Columbia University Press, British Columbia, Academic Press, Middle Devonian, North America, Lower Devonian, New South Wales, University of Kansas, Conway Morris, Mackenzie Mountains, United States, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Arctic, Kluwer Academic, Paleontological Society, Mathematical Geology, Oxford University Press, Plenum Publishers, Distance-Singular Vector, Natural History Museum, San Francisco, Palaeontographica Canadiana, University of Chicago Press New!
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- Extinction and Phylogeny by Michael J. Novacek on 4 pages
- Tempo and Mode in Evolution (Columbia University Biological Series) by George Gaylord Simpson on page 339, page 343, and page 374
- Phylogenetic Systematics by Willi Hennig on page 7, page 27, and Back Matter
- Homology: The Hierarchical Basis of Comparative Biology by Brian K. Hall on page 195, and page 231
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on page 27, and page 372
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