This book succinctly reviews phylogenetic debates for fishes by considering the historical background, summarizing the controversies, sorting through and evaluating competing modern phylogenetic proposals, and synthesizing the results for each major fish group. It evaluates the leading hypotheses in terms of their significance and their implications for the comparative biology of fishes. It asks whether phylogeny makes sense and examines its ability to explain the known facts about a group of fishes.
Key selling features:
- Organizes a complex subject and presents it in a simple way
- Focuses on the latest research and the most current ideas
- Contains illustrations of evolutionary relationships in the form of simplified trees
- Illustrates important morphological innovations that characterize particular fish groups
- Highlights well-known species that people can relate to placing them in their evolutionary context (e.g., white shark, rainbow trout, seahorse, Atlantic cod)
- ISBN10 1498715656
- ISBN13 9781498715652
- Publish Date 31 December 2024 (first published 31 December 2023)
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint Productivity Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 248
- Language English