Advanced course GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS AND PHYLOGENY - 7th edition

December 1, 2015

INSTRUCTOR: Prof. Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester, UK)

DATES: September 12 -16, 2016

PLACE: Facilities of the Centre of Restauració i Interpretació Paleontologica, Els Hostalets de Pierola, Barcelona (Spain)

Testimonials of previous editions: http://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/gm/gm-and-phylogeny/#Testimonials 

PROGRAM
 1. Phylogeny, trees and phylogenetic reasoning.
 2. Brief review of geometric morphometrics (Procrustes fit, PCA, etc.).
 3. Mapping traits onto phylogenies: squared-change parsimony.
 4. Practice: making/editing Nexus files, mapping morphometric data onto the tree (Mesquite, MorphoJ).
 5. Phylogenetic signal, morphometric traits and estimating phylogeny.
 6. Comparative methods: independent contrasts.
 7. Application in morphometrics: evolutionary allometry and size correction.
 8. Practice: comparative methods (MorphoJ).
 9. Application of comparative methods: morphological integration.
 10. Multi-level analyses of integration: inferring evolutionary mechanisms.
 11. Application of comparative methods: partial least squares (ecomorphology, etc.).
 12. Practice; comparative methods (cont.).
 13. Morphometrics, phylogenies and qualitative characters.
 14. Disparity and diversification.
 15. Presentations of group work.

More information: http://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/gm/gm-and-phylogeny/ or writing to courses@transmittingscience.org 

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