| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 339 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Explanations of homoplasy at different levels of biological organization -- Homoplasy connections and disconnections: genes and species, molecules and morphology -- Relationship between homoplasy and confidence in a phylogenetic tree -- Nonfloral homoplasy and evolutionary scenarios in living and fossil land plants -- Behavioral characters and homoplasy: perception versus practice -- Measures of homoplasy -- Measurement of homoplasy: a stochastic view -- Complexity and homoplasy -- Exaptation, adaptation, and homoplasy: evolution of ecological traits in Dalechampia vines -- Patterns of homplasy in behavioral evolution -- Ontogenetic evolution, clade diversification, and homoplasy -- Homoplasy in angiosperm flowers -- Homoplasy and the evolutionary process: an afterword |
| Summary |
Why do unrelated organisms sometimes appear almost identical in details of the anatomy, behavior, physiology, and ecology? Homoplasy assembles leaders in evolutionary biology to explore issues of parallelism, convergence, and reversals. This innovative book is certain to provoke discussion of homoplasy compelling evidence for particular theories of evolutionary change Key Features* The first book on this increasingly interesting subject* Includes authoritative treatments from leading experts expressing a variety of viewpoints |
| Analysis |
Evolution |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Homoplasy.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
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Homoplasy
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Evolutie.
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Evolucao (teoria)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sanderson, Michael J.
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Hufford, Larry, 1958-
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| ISBN |
9780080534114 |
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0080534112 |
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9780126180305 |
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012618030X |
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