Tree Thinking: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology (Record no. 295541)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781936221165 |
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| Classification number | 576.88 BAU-T |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | David A Baum |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Tree Thinking: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Greenwood Village |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Roberts |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xx, 476 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction. Phylogenetic trees and their importance in modern biology -- Interpreting trees. Tree thinking and its importance in the development of evolutionary thought ; What a phylogenetic tree represents ; Trait evolution ; Relatedness and taxonomy ; Gene trees and species trees -- Inferring trees. Phylogenetic inference with parsimony ; Phylogenetic inference with distance, maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods ; Statistical tests of phylogenetic hypotheses ; Using trees to study character evolution ; Using trees to study space, time, and evolutionary diversification. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Baum and Smith, both professors evolutionary biology and researchers in the field of systematics, present this highly accessible introduction to phylogenetics and its importance in modern biology. Ever since Darwin, the evolutionary histories of organisms have been portrayed in the form of branching trees or Â"phylogenies.Â" However, the broad significance of the phylogenetic trees has come to be appreciated only quite recently. Phylogenetics has myriad applications in biology, from discovering the features present in ancestral organisms, to finding the sources of invasive species and infectious diseases, to identifying our closest living (and extinct) hominid relatives. Taking a conceptual approach, Tree Thinking introduces readers to the interpretation of phylogenetic trees, how these trees can be reconstructed, and how they can be used to answer biological questions. Examples and vivid metaphors are incorporated throughout, and each chapter concludes with a set of problems, valuable for both students and teachers. Tree Thinking is must-have textbook for any student seeking a solid foundation in this fundamental area of evolutionary biology. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Phylogeny. |
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| Personal name | Stacey D Smith |
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| Koha item type | Book |
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| Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Processing Center | 01/09/2015 | 1 | 576.88 BAU-T | DCB2366 | 11/07/2019 | 11/07/2019 | 19/07/2019 | Book |