Important Publications in Phylogenetics
See also:
Phylogenetic Systematics
- Willi Hennig
- University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1966.
Description: This book popularized the techniques of cladistics in the English-speaking world. It is based on work published in German starting 1950. Willi Hennig is considered the founder of cladistics, which he developed while working as an entomologist in East Germany.
Importance: The origin of the subject; lasting influence
Inferring Phylogenies
- Joseph Felsenstein
- Sinauer Associates, 2004.
Description: An excellent technical manual to guide any biologist wishing to construct a phylogenetic hypothesis.
Importance: Possibly the most complete and authoritative work published on phylogenetics to date.
Phylogenetics
- Charles Semple and Mike Steel
- Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and Its Applications, 2003
- ISBN 0198509421
Description: Introduction to the mathematical theory behind
phylogenetic methods, both for biologists and for mathematicians,
statisticians, and computer scientists--this is an emerging area of
discrete mathematics.
Importance: A useful monograph on the mathematics of phylogenetic methods.
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