Molecules and morphology in evolution conflict or compromise? edited by Colin Patterson.
Detalles de publicación: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] New York Cambridge University Press 1987.Descripción: x, 229 p. ill. 24 cmISBN:- 0521322715
- 0521338603 (pbk.)
- 575 19
- QH359 .M65 1987
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This book reviews the phylogenetic data derived from molecular methods and from classical morphology, and analyses the contribution each can make to the study of evolution. Molecular biology and traditional areas of evolutionary biology such as morphology have not enjoyed a particularly happy marriage. Molecular biologists have the advantages of modernity, high technology, and visibility: their results often seem to represent the cutting edge of science, superseding and outmoding what went before. Nevertheless, this book shows that the partnership between those who study morphology and those who study molecules is alive and well: reconciliation is possible, necessary and inevitable because the problems involved in reconstructing the history of life do not change, whatever the source of the data. In eight chapters, leading exponents of molecular and morphological methods explore phylogeny, starting with hominoids, the most thoroughly studied group, then working outwards through the vertebrates, and ending at the level of the prokaryote and eukaryote kingdoms. Theoretical problems are also covered, including the concepts of homology, the molecular clock and neutral or 'non-Darwinian' evolution. The book concludes with an example in laboratory mice where the reliability of different methods for determining phylogeny can be tested against a known genealogy.
Papers presented at the Third International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, held at the University of Sussex, 4-11 July 1985.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Aspects of hominoid phylogeny
- 3 Molecular and morphological analysis of high-level mammalian interrelationships
- 4 Avian phylogeny reconstructed from comparisons of the genetic material, DNA
- 5 Tetrapod relationships: the molecular evidence
- 6 Pattern and process in vertebrate phylogeny revealed by coevolution of molecules and morphologies
- 7 Macroevolution in the microscopic world
- 8 Divergence in inbred strains of mice: a comparison of three different types of data
- Index