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Cladistics: Theory and Practice of Parsimony Analysis

By David Williams , Ian Kitching , Peter Forey , Christopher Humphries

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1998
ISBN
9780198501398, 0-19-850139-0
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (4020713 bytes)
Series
Systematics Association Publications, 11
Edition
2
Pages
238\238
Time added
2010-04-25 21:59:20

Description

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 systematic relationships among organisms, this book provides a state-of-the-art account of the techniques and methods of modern cladistics, and of how to put them into practice.

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