COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Introduction -- The meaning of phylogeny -- Phylogenetic metaphors -- Molecular appraisals of phylogeny -- Comparative phylogenetics -- Phylogenetic character mapping -- 2 Anatomical structures and morphologies -- Whence the toucan's bill? -- The beak of the fish -- Snails' shell shapes -- More on snails' shell shapes -- Winged walkingsticks -- Hermits and kings -- True and false gharials -- Loss of limbs on the reptile tree -- Fishy origins of tetrapods -- Panda ponderings -- Fossil DNA and extinct eagles -- The Yeti's abominable phylogeny -- 3 Body colorations -- Light and dark mice -- Sexual dichromatism -- Dabbling into duck plumages -- Specific avian color motifs -- The poisonous Pitohui -- Warning colorations in poison frogs -- Müllerian mimicry butterflies -- Caterpillar colors and cryptic species -- 4 Sexual features and reproductive lifestyles -- The chicken or the egg? -- The avian nest -- Egg dumping and foster parentage -- Egg laying and live bearing -- Piscine placentas -- Male pregnancy -- Living and reproducing by the sword -- Brood care in Jamaican land crabs -- Social parasitism of butterflies on ants -- Of monkeyflowers and hummingbirds -- Parthenogenetic lizards, geckos, and snakes -- Delayed implantation -- 5 More behaviors and ecologies -- The kangaroo's bipedal hop -- Powered flight in winged mammals -- Magnetotaxis in bacteria -- Cetacean origins -- Feeding and echolocation in whales -- The phylogeny of thrush migration -- Pufferfish inflation -- Eusociality in shrimp -- Evolutionary reversals of salamander lifecycles -- Dichotomous life histories of marine larvae -- Adaptive radiations in island lizards -- Spiders' web-building behaviors -- Lichen lifestyles -- 6 Cellular, physiological, and genetic traits -- Foregut fermentation.

Snake venoms -- Antifreeze proteins in anti-tropical fishes -- Warm-bloodedness in fishes -- Electrical currents -- The Xs and Ys of sex determination -- The eyes have it -- Two types of body -- The phylogenomics of DNA repair -- Roving nucleic acids -- Host-to-parasite gene transfer -- Tracking the AIDS virus -- 7 Geographical distributions -- Afrotheria theory -- Aussie songbirds -- Madagascar's chameleons -- The evolutionary cradle of humanity -- Coral conservation -- Sri Lanka, a cryptic biodiversity hotspot -- Overseas plant dispersal -- Phylogenetic bearings on Polar Bears -- Looking over overlooked elephants -- Bergmann's rule -- Epilog -- Appendix: A primer on phylogenetic character mapping -- History of cladistic concepts and terminology -- Maximum parsimony -- Maximum likelihood -- Independent contrasts between pairs of quantitative traits -- Glossary -- References and Further reading -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Whence the toucan's bill? -- The beak of the fish -- Snails' shell shapes -- More on snails' shell shapes -- Winged walkingsticks -- Hermits and kings -- True and false gharials -- Loss of limbs on the reptile tree -- Fishy origins of tetrapods -- Panda ponderings -- Fossil DNA and extinct eagles -- The Yeti's abominable phylogeny -- Chapter 3 -- Light and dark mice -- Sexual dichromatism -- Dabbling into duck plumages -- Specific avian color motifs -- The poisonous Pitohui -- Warning colorations in poison frogs -- Müllerian mimicry butterflies -- Caterpillar colors and cryptic species -- Chapter 4 -- The chicken or the egg? -- The avian nest -- Egg dumping and foster parentage -- Egg laying and live bearing -- Piscine placentas -- Male pregnancy -- Living and reproducing by the sword -- Brood care in Jamaican land crabs -- Social parasitism of butterflies on ants -- Parthenogenetic lizards, geckos, and snakes.

Of monkeyflowers and hummingbirds -- Delayed implantation -- Chapter 5 -- The kangaroo's bipedal hop -- Powered flight in winged mammals -- Magnetotaxis in bacteria -- Cetacean origins -- Feeding and echolocation in whales -- The phylogeny of thrush migration -- Pufferfish inflation -- Eusociality in shrimp -- Evolutionary reversals of salamander lifecycles -- Dichotomous life histories in marine invertebrates -- Adaptive radiations in island lizards -- Spiders' web-building behaviors -- Lichen lifestyles -- Chapter 6 -- Foregut fermentation -- Snake venoms -- Antifreeze proteins in anti-tropical fishes -- Warm-bloodedness in fishes -- Electrical currents -- The Xs and Ys of sex determination -- The eyes have it -- Two types of bodies -- The phylogenomics of DNA repair -- Roving nucleic acids -- Host-to-parasite gene transfer -- Tracking the AIDS virus -- Chapter 7 -- Afrotheria theory -- Aussie songbirds -- Madagascar's chameleons -- The evolutionary cradle of humanity -- Coral conservation -- Sri Lanka, a cryptic biodiversity hotspot -- Overseas plant dispersal -- Phylogenetic bearings on Polar Bears -- Looking over overlooked elephants -- Bergmann's rule -- Appendix -- Index.