Springer recently published a new and dramatically expanded version of Pardis’s book Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution with R. This book is a great way to teach yourself some of the amazing techniques available for phylogeneticists and comparative biologists via the R statistical computing environment. With 386 pages, the new edition is nearly twice as large as the previous version (211 pages). Countless new methods are covered, and many problems with the previous edition are remedied. In spite of the expansion and improvements, the sticker price is actually lower on the new edition ($65) than it was on the old edition ($75). You can pick up a copy for around $50 at places like Amazon.com. This book should be considered required reading for anyone doing modern phylogenetic and comparative analyses. If you need anoles to inspire an interest in learning R, I’ll be posting shortly on some R tutorials that use anoles as case studies.
- JMIH 2014: Early Records of Fossil Anolis from the Oligocene and Miocene of Florida, USA - August 13, 2014
- JMIH 2014: Relative Contribution of Genetic and Ecological Factors to Morphological Differentiation in Island Populations of Anolis sagrei - August 7, 2014
- JMIH 2014: The Ultrastructure of Spermatid Development within the Anole, Anolis sagrei - August 5, 2014
Tony Gamble
This book is indeed awesome and the digital version (in pdf form) is available through the Springer website . I was able to get all of the chapters (for free) through my university libraries’ subscription to Springer’s journals.
geneva
This ability to download PDFs exists for most of the Use R! series, provided your library subscribes. Other useful books include A Primer of Ecology with R – which I personally think is a great companion to Gotelli’s book, A Beginner’s Guide to R, and Biostatistics with R
Luke Mahler
I just got mine in the mail last week. Rich is right – it’s an awesome resource and a very timely update to the previous version. The first thing I noticed is that there’s much more emphasis on comparative methods and macroevolution.