Phylogenetics: The Theory and Practice of Phylogenetic Systematics [Hardcover]

E. O. Wiley (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0471059757 | ISBN-13: 978-0471059752 | Publication Date: July 27, 1981 | Edition: 1

Presents a clear, simple and comprehensive overview of the phylogenetic approach to systematics, which has two major goals: reconstructing the evolutionary relationships among organisms and integrating the results into general reference classifications. Shows how the results of systematic research can be applied to studying the pattern and processes of evolution.

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Presents a clear, simple and comprehensive overview of the phylogenetic approach to systematics, which has two major goals: reconstructing the evolutionary relationships among organisms and integrating the results into general reference classifications. Shows how the results of systematic research can be applied to studying the pattern and processes of evolution.

About the Author

Professor Wiley is Emeritus Professor of Ecology and evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas.  Currently he works in the University of Kansas Natural History Museum.  Professor Wiley's distinguished career is marked by hundreds of peer-reviewed papers, a continuous string of research grants, including his current NSF grant, "Assembling the Euteleost Tree of Life," and the publication of 5 books.

 

Professor Lieberman is an Invertebrate Paleontologist at University of Kansas.  Professor Lieberman has also authored five books as well as numerous peer reviewed publications.  His long string of research grants culminates most recently with an NSF grant to study "Revisionary systematic of Cheirurid Trilobites."

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 456 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Liss; 1 edition (July 27, 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471059757
• ISBN-13: 978-0471059752
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #493,360 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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E. O. Wiley (1944 - ) was born Edward Orlando Wiley, III, in Corpus Christi, Texas. He grew up in mostly in San Marcos, Texas where he graduated from Southwest Texas State College (now Texas State University with a degree in biology, minor in chemistry. After one year as a fisheries biologist for the Texas Parks and Wildlife he joined the U.S. Air Force. After four years with assignments in Kansas, Key West, Florida and Alaska he returned to school at Sam Houston State University (M.A) and City University of New York (Ph.D.). During his tenure at the University of Kansas he has specialized in the theory and practice of systematic biology and studied the evolution of fishes as a member of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Senior Curator of Fishes at the Biodiversity Institute. Honors include election as a Fellow to the Linnean Society, London, President of the Society of Systematic Zoology (now Biology) and a recipient of the Gibbs Award for an outstanding body of work in the field of systematic ichthyology. He is the author of three books (two in second edition) and over 120 peer-reviewed papers.