Over the past two decades, comparative biological analyses have undergone profound
changes with the incorporation of rigorous evolutionary perspectives and phylogenetic …

" The objectives of comparative physiology are:(1) to describe the diverse ways which
different kinds of animals meet their functional requirements;(2) to elucidate evolutionary …

This book is both a manual for the computer program MacClade, describing its features and
potential uses, as well as a portrayal of a phylogenetic approach to studying diversity and …

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an
evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and …

Cladistics aims to reconstruct genealogies based on common ancestry, thus revealing the
phylogenetic relationships between taxa. Its applications vary from linguistic analysis to the …

Relationships between morphology, physiology, or biochemistry, on the one hand, and
behavior and ecology, on the other, have been widely documented, as this volume attests …

We introduce the concept of many-to-one mapping of form to function and suggest that this
emergent property of complex systems promotes the evolution of physiological diversity. Our …

From the perspective of the ecologist, ecomorphological analyses have three distinct
goals:(1) estimation of ecological relationships among species from their positions in …

Philosophers of evolutionary biology favor the so-called “etiological concept” of function
according to which the function of a trait is its evolutionary purpose, defined as the effect for …

▪ Abstract Phylogenetic studies and new fossil evidence have yielded fundamental insights
into the pattern and timing of dinosaur evolution and the emergence of functionally modern …