Keywords:
Morphology -- Congresses.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Generally, biologists and mathematicians who study the shape and form of organisms have largely been working in isolation from those who work on evolutionary relationships through the analysis of common characteristics. Increasingly however, dialogue between the two communities is beginning to develop - but other than a handful of journal papers, there has been no formal, published discussion on this subject. This timely book summarises the interdisciplinary work that has taken place and will stimulate additional research into these topics. Any scientist working on evolutionary relationships will find this volume invaluable.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203165171
Series Statement:
Systematics Association Special Volumes Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=2010432
DDC:
571.3
Language:
English
Note:
Front Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- References -- Chapter 2 -- ABSTRACT -- Introduction -- Homology -- Characters -- Continuous variables -- Primary homology and topographical identity -- Character state identity -- Cladistic analysis -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3 -- ABSTRACT -- Introduction -- Brownian motion and character correlation -- Dilemmas and opportunities -- Chasing peaks -- Punctuational models -- The character coding problem -- The character uncoding problem -- Morphometrics at last -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 4 -- ABSTRACT -- Introduction -- Methods of analysis -- Scaling -- Polymorphism -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 5 -- ABSTRACT -- Introduction -- Review of the last 10 years in plant phylogenetics -- Methods -- Phylogenetic analyses -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 6 -- ABSTRACT -- Introduction -- Requirements of phylogenetic analysis -- Mandibles and landmarks -- Comparison of morphometric methods -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 7 -- ABSTRACT -- Introduction -- Characters and variables -- Using morphology to discover character states -- Continuity: axes vs observations -- Distances, landmarks, and homology -- Partial warp variables as phylogenetic characters: a test of congruence -- A relative warp approach to quantitative morphological analysis in systematics: congruence, interpretability, and extension -- Summary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 8 -- ABSTRACT -- Introduction: on themes visual and methodological -- Localization in biometry -- Geometry of creases in one and two dimensions -- Example: effect of schizophrenia on a midsagittal brain polygon -- Example: sexual dimorphism in a curving form without landmarks -- Lab rats.
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A phylogenetic example -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix 1: constructing hypothetical forms by minimizing bending energy -- Appendix 2: how to approximate your own creases -- References -- Chapter 9 -- ABSTRACT -- Introduction -- Shape variables and multivariate spaces -- Fitting shape data to a phylogeny -- Visualizations -- An example -- Estimating a phylogeny from shape data -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 10 -- ABSTRACT -- Introduction -- What are phylogenetic signals? -- How do phylogenetic signals originate and why are they interesting? -- Uncertainty and the bootstrap -- A model for describing morphometric variation using landmarks -- Parametric bootstrapping under the model -- Constructing phenograms based on morphometric dissimilarity -- Measuring the signal -- A simple example -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 11 -- ABSTRACT -- Introduction -- Materials and methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendices -- Chapter 12 -- ABSTRACT -- Introduction -- The methods -- Practical application of the methods -- Validity of using Brownian motion models -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 13 -- ABSTRACT -- Introduction -- General theory for statistical models of continuously varying traits -- A framework for modelling continuously varying traits evolving on phylogenies -- Hypothesis testing -- An application to the evolution of Hominid cranial capacity -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 14 -- References.
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