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Arthropod Relationships: 55 (The Systematics Association Special Volume Series, 55) - Hardcover

 
9780412754203: Arthropod Relationships: 55 (The Systematics Association Special Volume Series, 55)

Synopsis

The arthropods contain more species than any other animal group, but the evolutionary pathways which led to their current diversity are still an issue of controversy.

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Review

`... it may mark a historical transition. For practitioners in the field this will be an important book and should find its way onto their bookshelves ...'
Nature, 397 (1999)
`... their splendid Arthropod Relationships ... It is a milestone that will certainly be appreciated by students as well as specialists in the field. The book represents a clear and up-to-date review of arthropod phylogeny and handless some general phylogenetic aspects.'
TREE - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 13:12 (1998)

Synopsis

Arthropods - insects, crustaceans, myriapods and arachnids - are the most speciose of all animal groups, and have been so for hundreds of millions of years. Their importance in every eco-system - terrestial and marine - is not in question, yet little has been agreed about how they achieve their pre-eminence. This text presents papers from a symposium on arthropology held at the Natural History Museum on 17-19 April 1996. It synthesizes views about arthropod phylogeny and many of the papers presented include cladistic analyses based upon character matrices - both morphological and molecular.

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