Name: Molecules and Morphology in Evolution: Conflict or Compromise? (en Inglés)
SKU: 19186772
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Author: Patterson, Colin
ISBN: 9780521338608

portada Molecules and Morphology in Evolution: Conflict or Compromise? (en Inglés)

Molecules and Morphology in Evolution: Conflict or Compromise? (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Ilustrado por

Colin Patterson

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Patterson, Colin

Año

1987

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x1.5 cm

Peso

0.34 kg.

ISBN

0521338603

ISBN13

9780521338608

N° edición

Categorías

Evolución

Molecules and Morphology in Evolution: Conflict or Compromise? (en Inglés)

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This book reviews the phylogenetic data derived from molecular methods and from classical morphology, and analyses the contribution each can make to the study of evolution. Molecular biology and traditional areas of evolutionary biology such as morphology have not enjoyed a particularly happy marriage. Molecular biologists have the advantages of modernity, high technology, and visibility: their results often seem to represent the cutting edge of science, superseding and outmoding what went before. Nevertheless, this book shows that the partnership between those who study morphology and those who study molecules is alive and well: reconciliation is possible, necessary and inevitable because the problems involved in reconstructing the history of life do not change, whatever the source of the data. In eight chapters, leading exponents of molecular and morphological methods explore phylogeny, starting with hominoids, the most thoroughly studied group, then working outwards through the vertebrates, and ending at the level of the prokaryote and eukaryote kingdoms. Theoretical problems are also covered, including the concepts of homology, the molecular clock and neutral or 'non-Darwinian' evolution. The book concludes with an example in laboratory mice where the reliability of different methods for determining phylogeny can be tested against a known genealogy.