Tree Thinking: an Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology

Name: Tree Thinking: an Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology
Price: 41.85 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781936221165

ISBN-10: 1936221160

ISBN-13: 9781936221165

Edition: 2013

Authors: David Baum, Stacey Smith

List price: $29.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Marketplace

1 new & used from $41.85

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Baum and Smith, both professors evolutionary biology and researchers in the field of systematics, present this highly accessible introduction to phylogenetics and its importance in modern biology. Ever since Darwin, the evolutionary histories of organisms have been portrayed in the form of branching trees or “phylogenies.” However, the broad significance of the phylogenetic trees has come to be appreciated only quite recently. Phylogenetics has myriad applications in biology, from discovering the features present in ancestral organisms, to finding the sources of invasive species and infectious diseases, to identifying our closest living (and extinct) hominid relatives. Taking a conceptual…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. H. Freeman & Company
Publication date: 6/15/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 7.30" wide x 9.35" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English

Rye, NH; Senior Counsel & Partner; Jackson Jackson & Wagner