Molecules and Morphology in Evolution: Conflict or Compromise?

Book Overview

This book reviews the phylogenetic data derived from molecular methods and from classical morphology, and analyses the contribution each can make to the study of evolution. Molecular biology and traditional areas of evolutionary biology such as morphology have not enjoyed a particularly happy marriage. Molecular biologists have the advantages of modernity, high technology, and visibility: their results often seem to represent the cutting edge of science,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521338603
• ISBN13: 9780521338608
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"