Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form: An Analytical Approach

In the eleven years since Harvey and Pagel (1991), evolutionary biologists committed considerable methodological effort into the relationship between phylogeny and numerous types of patterns. Morphology , Shape and Phylogeny and Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form both concern themselves with these issues. The former book deals primarily with the relationship between phylogeny and continuous mor-phometric data, whereas the latter deals with a variety of other issues also. MacLeod and Forey's text stems from the 1999 Second Biennial International conference of the Systematics Association with the same name as the book. This excellent volume includes papers dealing with both aspects of morphometric data and phylogeny: how one can infer phylog-enies or even test phylogenetic hypotheses from morpho-metric data, and how one can reconstruct continuous character evolution over model phylogenies. Of course, these concepts are inexorably linked and several of the papers treat both issues. The authors include many of the movers and shakers of morphometric, phylogenetic and tree-based methodology. Whether continuous