Homoplasy : the recurrence of similarity in evolution /

Other Authors: Sanderson, Michael J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Academic Press, ©1996.
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=203208
Table of 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.