phylogeny

Great transformations in vertebrate evolution

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How did flying birds evolve from running dinosaurs, terrestrial trotting tetrapods evolve from swimming fish, and whales return to swim in the sea? These are some of the great transformations in the 500-million-year history of vertebrate life. And with the aid of new techniques …

Marine fungi and fungal-like organisms

by Pang, Ka-Lai, Jones, E.B. Gareth

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Marine fungi play a major role in marine and mangrove ecosystems. Understanding how higher fungi with their spectrum of cellulolytic and ligninolytic enzymes degrade wood tissue, is essential to marine ecology. This book provides an overview of marine fungi including morphology …

New approaches to prokaryotic systematics

fromMethods in microbiology

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Volume 41 of 'Methods in Microbiology' is a methods book designed to highlight procedures that will revitalize the purposes and practices of prokaryotic systematics. This volume will notably show that genomics and computational biology are pivotal to the new direction of travel …

The Nature of Diversity: an Evolutionary Voyage of Discovery

by Brooks, Daniel R., McLennan, Deborah A.

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All living things on earth-from individual species to entire ecosystems-have evolved through time, and evolution is the acknowledged framework of modern biology. Yet many areas of biology have moved from a focus on evolution to much narrower perspectives. Daniel R. Brooks and De…

The nature of diversity: an evolutionary voyage of discovery

by Brooks, D. R., (Daniel R.), McLennan, Deborah A.

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All living things on earth-from individual species to entire ecosystems-have evolved through time, and evolution is the acknowledged framework of modern biology. Yet many areas of biology have moved from a focus on evolution to much narrower perspectives.Daniel R. Brooks and Deb…

The Nature of Diversity: an Evolutionary Voyage of Discovery

by Brooks, Daniel R., McLennan, Deborah A.

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All living things on earth-from individual species to entire ecosystems-have evolved through time, and evolution is the acknowledged framework of modern biology. Yet many areas of biology have moved from a focus on evolution to much narrower perspectives. Daniel R. Brooks and De…

The Indo-European controversy: facts and fallacies in historical linguistics

by Pereltsvaig, Asya, Lewis, Martin W.

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Over the past decade, a group of prolific and innovative evolutionary biologists has sought to reinvent historical linguistics through the use of phylogenetic and phylogeographical analysis, treating cognates like genes and conceptualizing the spread of languages in terms of the…

The Indo-European controversy: facts and fallacies in historical linguistics

by Pereltsvaig, Asya, Lewis, Martin W.

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Scope and content: "Over the past decade, a group of prolific and innovative evolutionary biologists has sought to reinvent historical linguistics through the use of phylogenetic and phylogeographical analysis, treating cognates like genes and conceptualizing the spread of langu…

The Indo-European controversy: facts and fallacies in historical linguistics

by Pereltsvaig, Asya, Lewis, Martin W.

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"Over the past decade, a group of prolific and innovative evolutionary biologists has sought to reinvent historical linguistics through the use of phylogenetic and phylogeographical analysis, treating cognates like genes and conceptualizing the spread of languages in terms of th…

The Indo-European controversy: facts and fallacies in historical linguistics

by Pereltsvaig, Asya, Lewis, Martin W.

0 Type: Book

"Over the past decade, a group of prolific and innovative evolutionary biologists has sought to reinvent historical linguistics through the use of phylogenetic and phylogeographical analysis, treating cognates like genes and conceptualizing the spread of languages in terms of th…

The Indo-European controversy: facts and fallacies in historical linguistics

by Pereltsvaig, Asya, Lewis, Martin W.

0 Type: Book

"Over the past decade, a group of prolific and innovative evolutionary biologists has sought to reinvent historical linguistics through the use of phylogenetic and phylogeographical analysis, treating cognates like genes and conceptualizing the spread of languages in terms of th…

Dogs: their fossil relatives and evolutionary history

by Antón, Mauricio, Wang, Xiaoming, Tedford, Richard H.

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"Xiaoming Wang has spent the past 20 years studying the evolutionary history of the family Canidae, and Richard H. Tedford is well known for having established the modern framework for the evolutionary relationship of canids. Combining their research with Mauricio Anton's impecc…