Evolution And Classification

Author : Alec L. Panchen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521315784
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology written by Alec L. Panchen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, naturalists who proposed theories of evolution, including Darwin and Wallace, did so in order to explain the apparent relationship of natural classification. This book begins by exploring the intimate historical relationship between patterns of classification and patterns of phylogeny. However, it is a circular argument to use the data for classification. Alec Panchen presents other evidence for evolution in the form of a historically based but rigorously logical argument. This is followed by a history of methods of classification and phylogeny reconstruction including current mathematical and molecular techniques. The author makes the important claim that if the hierarchical pattern of classification is a real phenomenon, then biology is unique as a science in making taxonomic statements. This conclusion is reached by way of historical reviews of theories of evolutionary mechanism and the philosophy of science as applied to biology. The book is addressed to biologists, particularly taxonomists, concerned with the history and philosophy of their subject, and to philosophers of science concerned with biology. It is also an important source book on methods of classification and the logic of evolutionary theory for students, professional biologists, and paleontologists.

Author : Sherwood Larned Washburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1266 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classification and Human Evolution written by Sherwood Larned Washburn and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reviews the meaning of taxonomic statements and considers our present knowledge regarding the number and characteristics of species among living and extinct primates, including man and his ancestors.

Author : Raymond Cecil Moore
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 081372046X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution and Classification of Paleozoic Crinoids written by Raymond Cecil Moore and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1943 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Max Hecht
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468488511
Total Pages : 901 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Major Patterns in Vertebrate Evolution written by Max Hecht and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 901 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the result of a NATO Advanced Study Institute held in England at Kingswood Hall of Residence, Royal Holloway College (London University), Surrey, during the last two weeks of July, 1976. The ASI was organized within the guide lines laid down by the Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. During the past two decades, significant advances have been made in our understanding of vertebrate evolution. The purpose of the Institute was to present the current status of our know ledge of vertebrate evolution above the species level. Since the subject matter was obviously too broad to be covered adequately in the limited time available, selected topics, problems, and areas which are applicable to vertebrate zoology as a whole were reviewed. The program was divided into three areas: (1) the theory and methodology of phyletic inference and approaches to the an alysis of macroevolutionary trends as applied to vertebrates; (2) the application of these methodological principles and an alytical processes to different groups and structures, particular ly in anatomy and paleontology; (3) the application of these re sults to classification. The basic principles considered in the first area were outlined in lectures covering the problems of character analysis, functional morphology, karyological evidence, biochemical evidence, morphogenesis, and biogeography.

Author : Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classification and Human Evolution written by Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reviews the meaning of taxonomic statements and considers our present knowledge regarding the number and characteristics of species among living and extinct primates, including man and his ancestors.

Author : Bill McKelvey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520314697
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizational Systematics written by Bill McKelvey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

Author : N. R. Scott-Ram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521340861
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformed Cladistics, Taxonomy and Evolution written by N. R. Scott-Ram and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-03-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an examination of the relationship between classification and evolutionary theory, with reference to the competing schools of taxonomic thinking. Emphasis is placed on one of these schools, the transformed cladists who have attempted to reject all evolutionary thinking in classification and to cast doubt on evolution in general. The author examines the limits to this line of thought from a philosophical and methodological perspective. He concludes that transformed cladistics does not achieve what it claims and that it either implicitly assumes a Platonic World View, or is unintelligible without taking into account evolutionary processes--the very processes it claims to reject. Through this analysis the author attempts to formulate criteria of an objective and consistent nature that can be used to judge competing methodologies and theories. Philosophers of science, zoologists interested in taxonomy, and evolutionary biologists will find this a compelling study.

Author : Alan F. Dixson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108699499
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mammalian Sexuality written by Alan F. Dixson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more than 6000 species belonging to twenty-seven orders in the Class Mammalia. Comparative studies of this diverse and magnificent array of extant species provide valuable opportunities to formulate and test hypotheses concerning the evolution of reproduction. This is the first book to explore, in depth and breadth, the complex interrelationships that exist between patterns of mating behaviour and the evolution of mammalian reproductive anatomy and physiology. It focuses upon the role that copulatory and post-copulatory sexual selection have played during the evolution of the monotremes, marsupials and placental mammals, and examines the effects of sperm competition and cryptic female choice upon coevolution of the genitalia in the two sexes. In addition, due weight is also given to discussions of the modes of life of mammals, and to the roles played by natural selection and phylogeny in determining their reproductive traits.

Author : Arthur Cronquist
Publisher : New York Botanical Garden Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
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Download or read book The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants written by Arthur Cronquist and published by New York Botanical Garden Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a short version of the general classification of flowering plants, together with an exposition of the theory underlying the system.

Author : Heiner Fangerau
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh
ISBN 13 : 9783515104609
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classification and Evolution in Biology, Linguistics and the History of Science written by Heiner Fangerau and published by Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh. This book was released on 2013 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Darwin's grand view of evolution has undergone many changes and shown up in many facets, there remains one outstanding common feature in its 150-year history: since the very beginning, branching trees have been the dominant scheme for representing evolutionary processes. Only recently, network models have gained ground reflecting contact-induced mixing or hybridization in evolutionary scenarios. In biology, research on prokaryote evolution indicates that lateral gene transfer is a major feature in the evolution of bacteria. In the field of linguistics, the mutual lexical and morphosyntactic borrowing between languages seems to be much more central for language evolution than the family tree model is likely to concede. In the humanities, networks are employed as an alternative to established phylogenetic models, to express the hybridization of cultural phenomena, concepts or the social structure of science. However, an interdisciplinary display of network analyses for evolutionary processes remains lacking. Therefore, this volume includes approaches studying the evolutionary dynamics of science, languages and genomes, all of which were based on methods incorporating network approaches.