TY - BOOK AU - Wheeler,Ward C. TI - Systematics: a Course of Lectures SN - 9781118301104 AV - QH83 .W46 2012 U1 - 570 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Hoboken PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - Biology KW - Classification KW - Textbooks KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - ls N2 - Systematics: A Course of Lectures is designed for use in an advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level course in systematics and is meant to present core systematic concepts and literature. The book covers topics such as the history of systematic thinking and fundamental concepts in the field including species concepts, homology, and hypothesis testing. Analytical methods are covered in detail with chapters devoted to sequence alignment, optimality criteria, and methods such as distance, parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches. Trees and tree searching, consensus and s UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118301081 ER -