Tree Thinking: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology

✍ Scribed by David A. Baum, Stacey D. Smith

• Publisher: W. H. Freeman
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 496
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Detailed Contents
Preface
About the Authors
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1 Phylogenetic Trees and Their Importance in Modern Biology
PART II: INTERPRETING TREES
2 Tree Thinking and Its Importance in the Development of Evolutionary Thought
3 What a Phylogenetic Tree Represents
4 Trait Evolution
5 Relatedness and Taxonomy
6 Gene Trees and Species Trees
PART III: INFERRING 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 Study Character Evolution
11 Using Trees to Study Space, Time, and Evolutionary Diversification
PART V: RESOURCES
Appendix 1: Data for Phylogenetic Analysis
Appendix 2: Generating a Morphological Data Matrix
Answers to Chapter Quizzes
References
Glossary
Index