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100 1 $aWheeler, Ward.
245 10 $aSystematics :$ba course of lectures /$cWard C. Wheeler.
260 $aChichester, West Sussex ;$aHoboken, NJ :$bWiley-Blackwell,$c2012.
300 $axviii, 426 p. :$bill. (some col.), map ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [376]-413) and index.
505 2 $aFundamentals.
505 2 $aHistory (Aristotle ; Theophrastus ; Pierre Belon ; Carolus Linnaeus ; George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon ; Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ; Georges Cuvier ; Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; Lorenz Oken ; Richard Owen ; Charles Darwin ; Stammbaume ; Evolutionary taxonomy ; Phenetics ; Phylogenetic systematics ; Molecules and morphology ; We are all Cladists) ; Fundamental concepts (Characters ; Taxa ; Graphs, trees, and networks ; Polarity and rooting ; Optimality ; Homology) ; Species concepts, definitions, and issues (Typological or taxonomic species concept ; Biological species concept ; Phylogenetic species concept(s) ; Lineage species concepts ; Species as individuals or classes ; Monoism and pluralism ; Pattern and process ; Species nominalism ; Do species concepts matter?) ; Hypothesis testing and the philosophy of science (Forms of scientific reasoning ; Other philosophical issues ; Quotidian importance) ; Computational concepts (Problems, algorithms,
505 2 $aand complexity ; An example: The traveling salesman problem ; Heuristic solutions ; Metricity, and untrametricity ; NP complete problems in systematics) ; Statistical and mathematical basics (Theory of statistics ; Matrix algebra, differential equations, and Markov models) -- Homology. Homology (Pre-evolutionary concepts ; Charles Darwin, E. Ray Lankester ; Adolf Remane ; Four types and homology ; Dynamic and static homology); Sequence alignment (Background ; "Informal" alignment ; Sequences ; Pairwise string matching ; Multiple sequence alignment) -- Optimality criteria. Optimality criteria -- distance (Why distance? ; Distance functions ; Ultrametric trees ; Additive trees ; General distances ; Comparisons) ; Optimality criteria --
505 2 $aparsimony (Perfect phylogeny ; Static homology characters ; Missing data ; Edge transformation assignments ; Collapsing branches ; Dynamic homology ; Dynamic and static homology ; Sequences as characters ; The tree alignment problem on trees ; Performance of heuristic solutions ; Parameter sensitivity ; Implied alignment ; Rearrangement ; Horizontal gene transfer, hybridization, and phylogenetic networks) ; Optimality criteria -- likelihood (Motivation ; Maximum likelihood and trees ; Types of likelihood ; Static-homology characters ; Dynamic-homology characters ; Hypothesis testing) ; Optimality criteria -- posterior probability (Bayes in systematics ; Priors ; Techniques ; Topologies and Clades ; Optimality versus support ; Dynamic homology ; Rearrangement ; Criticisms of Bayesian methods) ; Comparison of optimality criteria (Distance and character methods ; Epistemology ; Statistical behavior ; Performance ; Convergence ; Can we argue optimality criteria?) --
505 2 $aTrees. Tree searching (Exact solutions ; Heuristic solutions ; Trajectory search ; Randomization ; Perturbation ; Sectorial searches and disc-covering methods ; Simulated annealing ; Genetic algorithm ; Synthesis and stopping ; Empirical examples) ; Support (Resampling measures ; Optimality-based measures ; Parameter-based measures ; Comparison of support measures -- optimal and average ; Which to choose?); Consensus, congruence, and supertrees (Consensus tree methods ; Supertrees) -- Applications. Clocks and rates (The molecular clock ; Dating ; Testing clocks ; Relaxed clock models ; Implementations ; Criticisms ; Molecular dates?) -- Mathematical notation.
650 0 $aBiology$vClassification.
650 0 $aBiology$vTextbooks.
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