MacLeod N., Forey P.L. (eds.) Morphology, shape and phylogeny

London: Routledge, 2002. — 319 p.Generally, biologists and mathematicians who study the shape and form of organisms have largely been working in isolation from those who work on evolutionary relationships through the analysis of common characteristics. Increasingly however, dialogue between the two communities is beginning to develop - but other than a handful of journal papers, there has been no formal, published discussion on this subject. This timely book summarises the interdisciplinary work that has taken place and will stimulate additional research into these topics. Any scientist working on evolutionary relationships will find this volume invaluable.Introduction: morphology, shape, and phylogenetics
Homology, characters and continuous variables
Primary homology and topographical identity
Quantitative characters, phylogenies, and morphometrics
Morphometrics at last
Scaling, polymorphism and cladistic analysis
Methods of analysis
Overlapping variables in botanical systematics
Comparability, morphometrics and phylogenetic systematics
Phylogenetic signals in morphometric data
Characters and variables
Using morphology to discover character states
Creases as morphometric characters
Example: effect of schizophrenia on a midsagittal brain polygon
Geometric morphometrics and phylogeny
A parametric bootstrap approach to the detection of phylogenetic signals in landmark data
Uncertainty and the bootstrap
Phylogenetic tests for differences in shape and the importance of divergence times: Eldredge’s enigma explored
Ancestral states and evolutionary rates of continuous characters
Modelling the evolution of continuously varying characters on phylogenetic trees: the case of Hominid cranial capacity
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