Systematics and the Fossil Record: Documenting Evolutionary Patterns

by Andrew B. Smith

This new text sets out to establish the key role played bysystematics in deciphering patterns of evolution from the fossilrecord. It begins by considering the nature of the species in thefossil record and then outlines recent advances in the methodologyused to establish phylogenetics relationships, stressing why fossilevidence can be crucial. The way species are grouped into highertaxa, and how this affects their utility in evolutionary studies isalso...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0632036427
• ISBN13: 9780632036424
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.6"