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Molecules and Morphology in Evolution - Conflict or Compromise? (Paperback)
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Molecules and Morphology in Evolution - Conflict or Compromise? (Paperback)
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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.
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