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Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology Linear Thinking about Branching Trees

By: Ronald A Jenner(Author)
385 pages, B/w illustrations
Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology
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  • Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology ISBN: 9781107105935 Hardback Jul 2022 In stock
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About this book

Phylogenetics emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as a speculative storytelling discipline dedicated to providing narrative explanations for the evolution of taxa and their traits. It coincided with lineage thinking, a process that mentally traces character evolution along lineages of hypothetical ancestors. Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology traces the history of narrative phylogenetics and lineage thinking to the present day, drawing on perspectives from the history of science, philosophy of science, and contemporary scientific debates. It shows how the power of phylogenetic hypotheses to explain evolution resides in the precursor traits of hypothetical ancestors. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the topic of ancestors, which is central to modern biology and is therefore of interest to graduate students, researchers, and academics in evolutionary biology, palaeontology, philosophy of science, and the history of science.

Contents

1. A history of narrative phylogenetics
2. From archetypes to ancestors
3. The emergence of lineage thinking
4. Ernst Haeckel's evolutionary storytelling
5. The epistemic rise of hypothetical ancestors
6. Intuiting evolution
7. Telling straight stories with fossils
8. Seeing animal ancestors in embryos
9. Ancestral attractions and phylogenetic folklore
10. Narrative shortcuts and phylogenetic faux pas
11. Taxic distortions of lineage thinking
12. Making sense with stories.

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Biography

Ronald A. Jenner is Principal Researcher in the Department of Life Sciences at the Natural History Museum, London. His research focuses on animal phylogenetics, body plan evolution, the evolution of venoms, and conceptual issues in systematics. He has published extensively in the primary literature and co-authored Venom: The Secrets of Nature's Deadliest Weapon (The Natural History Museum, 2017).

By: Ronald A Jenner(Author)
385 pages, B/w illustrations
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