01181nam a22001937i 4500008004100000020002400041040000800065082001300073100001800086245006000104260004200164300004000206336003000246337003000276338003000306504003800336520060100374650001200975230506s2012    |||ado|| |||| 001 0 eng d  a9780470671702qpbk.  aGCL  a570bWHE1 aWheeler, Ward1 aSystematics : ba Course of Lectures /cWard C. Wheeler  aHoboken, bJohn Wiley & Sons, c2012.  a460 pages :billustrations ;c25 cm  atext  2txtbrdacontent    aunmediated bn2 rdamedia  avolume bnc 2rdacarrier   aIncludes bibliography and index.
  aSystematics: A Course of Lectures is designed for use in an advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level course in systematics and is meant to present core systematic concepts and literature. The book covers topics such as the history of systematic thinking and fundamental concepts in the field including species concepts, homology, and hypothesis testing. Analytical methods are covered in detail with chapters devoted to sequence alignment, optimality criteria, and methods such as distance, parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches. Trees and tree searching, consensus.
  aBiology