What light do fossils shed on the deep history of life's most
diverse phylum, the Arthropoda? Are the interrelationships between
major groups of arthropods -- crustaceans, chelicerates, and
tracheates -- resolved the same way whether or not fossils are
included? How should we combine evidence from extinct and extant
taxa? These are the central questions of "Arthropod Fossils and
Phylogeny."
Many recent controversies in arthropod evolution have been
initiated by new fossil discoveries and new interpretations of
early fossils. This book examines the role that these finds and
ideas have played in understanding the deep evolutionary history of
arthropods. The authors of the book's seven chapters have been at
the forefront of this research.
Contributions include phylogeny based on DNA sequence data for
living groups, cladistic analysis of the major lineages of
arthropods, detailed case studies of crustaceans, chelicerates, and
lobopodians, and the evolutionary significance of arthropods in
Cambrian fossil sites with exceptional preservation. All
contributors use cladistic methods, presenting copious new data to
stimulate further research.
The book will be a vital resource for paleontologists,
researchers on extant arthropods interested in fossil history, and
evolutionists concerned with how different kinds of systematic data
should be analyzed.
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