TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harvey, Paul H.
AU  - Pagel, Mark D.
TI  - The comparative method in evolutionary biology The comparative method in evolutionary biology 
T2  - (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution)
SN  - 0-19-854641-6
U1  - 575 20
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, 
KW  - EVOLUCION
N1  - 1. The Comparative Method for Studying Adaptation. -- 2. Why Worry About Phylogeny? -- 3. Reconstructing the Phylogenetic Trees and Ancestral Character States. -- 4. Comparative Analysis of Discrete Data. -- 5. Comparative Analysis of Continuous Variables. -- 6. Determining the Form of Comparative Relationships. -- 7. Conclusion
N2  - Do large genomes slow down development? What lifestyles are conducive to large brains? Are extinction rates related to body size? These are all questions for the comparative method, and this book is about how such questions can be answered
ER  -