Systematics

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Systematics: A Course of Lectures is designed for use in anadvanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level course insystematics and is meant to present core systematic concepts andliterature. The book covers topics such as the history ofsystematic thinking and fundamental concepts in the field includingspecies concepts, homology, and hypothesis testing. Analyticalmethods are covered in detail with chapters devoted to sequencealignment, optimality criteria, and methods such as distance,parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches. Trees andtree searching, consensus and super-tree methods, support measures,and other relevant topics are each covered in their own sections. The work is not a bleeding-edge statement or in-depth review ofthe entirety of systematics, but covers the basics as broadly ascould be handled in a one semester course. Most chapters aredesigned to be a single 1.5 hour class, with those on parsimony,likelihood, posterior probability, and tree searching two classes(2 x 1.5 hours).

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Ward C. Wheeler

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"Viewed as a series of lectures, this is clearly aimed atgraduate level courses in systematics, although some elements wouldprove useful at undergraduate level." (BritishEcological Society Bulletin, 1 August 2013) "If you want to teach yourself systematics, this book isfor you. It's just a series of lectures and exercisescompiled by Wheeler, one of the top systematicbiologists." (Teaching Biology, 20 December2012) "All things considered, I strongly recommend this work asa textbook for those teaching in systematics, biologists andpalaeontologists alike . . . I would advise this book to graduatestudents - MSc and above." (Journal ofZoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 1 February2013)
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