Parsimony, Phylogeny, and Genomics

This Book Examines The Potential That Parsimony Analysis (cladistics) Summarization Method Has For Both Structural And Functional Comparative Genomic Research--provided By Publisher. Parsimony And Phylogenetics In The Genomic Age / Victor A. Albert -- What Is The Rationale For 'ockham's Razor' (a.k.a. Parsimony) In Phylogenetic Inference? / Arnold G. Kluge -- Parsimony And Its Presuppositions / Elliott Sober -- The Logic Of The Data Matrix In Phylogenetic Analysis / Brent D. Mishler -- Alignment, Dynamic Homology, And Optimization / Ward C. Wheeler -- Parsimony And The Problem Of Inapplicables In Sequence Data / Jan E. De Laet -- The Limits Of Conventional Cladistic Analysis / Jerrold I. Davis, Kevic C. Nixon And Damon P. Little -- Parsimony And Bayesian Phylogenetics / Pablo A. Goloboff And Diego Pol -- Maximum Parsimony And The Phylogenetic Information In Multistate Characters / Mike Steel And David Penny -- Using Phylogeny To Understand Genomic Evolution / David A. Liberles -- Dollo Parsimony And The Reconstruction Of Genome Evolution / Igor B. Rogozin ... [et Al.]. Edited By Victor A. Albert. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 201-217) And Index.