01234nam a22002177i 4500 230506s2012 |||ado|| |||| 001 0 eng d 9780470671702 pbk. GCL 570 WHE Wheeler, Ward Systematics : a Course of Lectures / Ward C. Wheeler Hoboken, John Wiley & Sons, 2012. 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliography and index. Systematics: 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. Biology ddc 0 0 ddc 0 570_000000000000000_WHE 0 1770 LPL LPL 2023-08-12 0 570 WHE 15571 2023-08-12 00:00:00 2023-08-12 BK 1120 1120