Homology and Systematics: Coding Characters for Phylogenetic Analysis ISBN: 9780429178573 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / CRC Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Bioscience; Natural History;
Systematists, comparative biologists, taxonomists and evolutionary biologists all concern themselves with the evolutionary relationships between animals and plants. Homology is the principle underlying these disciplines. When looking at groups of organisms, shared positional similarities (homologues) provide the raw data from which hypotheses of co