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LaLszlo Zsolt Garamszegi, editor

New York : Springer

xv, 552 pages : illustrations (some color)

Includes index , Part I: Introduction -- An Introduction to the Phylogenetic Comparative Method -- Working with the Tree of Life in Comparative Studies: How to Build and Tailor Phylogenies to Interspecific Datasets -- An Introduction to Supertree Construction (and Partitioned Phylogenetic Analyses) with a View toward the Distinction between Gene Trees and Species Trees -- Graphical Methods for Visualizing Comparative Data on Phylogenies -- A Primer on Phylogenetic Generalised Least Squares -- Statistical Issues and Assumptions of Phylogenetic Generalised Least Squares -- Part II: Handling Phylogenies in Different Statistical Designs -- Uncertainties due to Within-Species Variation in Comparative Studies: Measurement Errors and Statistical Weights -- An Introduction to Phylogenetic Path Analysis -- Phylogenetic Logistic Regression for Binary Dependent Variables -- Keeping Yourself Updated: Bayesian Approaches in Phylogenetic Comparative Methods with a focus on Markov-chain models of Discrete Character Evolution -- General Quantitative Genetic Methods for Comparative Biology -- Multimodel-Inference in Comparative Analyses -- Part III: Specific Models for Studying Evolutionary Mechanisms -- Simulation of Phylogenetic Data -- Use and Misuse of Comparative Methods in the Study of Adaptation -- Modelling Stabilising Selection: the Attraction of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Models -- Hidden Markov Models for Studying the Evolution of Binary Morphological Characters -- Detecting Phenotypic Selection by Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) in Phylogenetic Comparative Methods -- Phylogenetic Comparative Methods for Studying Clade-Wide Convergence -- Metrics and Models of Community Phylogenetics -- Event-Based Cophylogenetic Comparative Analysis -- Phylogenetic Prediction to Identify ʹEvolutionary Singularitiesʹ -- Preparing Paleontological Datasets for Phylogenetic Comparative Methods

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