This classic focuses on the gathering, handling, and interpretation of numerical data from zoological investigations. Contents include types and properties of numerical data, mensuration, frequency distributions and grouping, patterns of frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion and variability, populations and samples, and probability. "Excellent." — Florida Scientist.
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Introduction to Quantitative Zoology
QUANTITATIVE ZOOLOGY.
This book presents a physicists view of life.
A quantitative analysis adds greatly to the precision of a description . ... The best for the purposes of the animal taxonomist is Quantitative Zoology by Simpson , Roe , and Lewontin ( 1960 ) , referred to in this text as SRL .
He blithely sent a paper attacking Pearson's work to the journal that Pearson edited. Needless to say, Pearson rejected it. Fisher quarreled with everyone—his neighbors, the butcher, university administrators.
Quantitative Paleozoology describes and illustrates how the remains of long-dead animals recovered from archaeological and paleontological excavations can be studied and analyzed.
By emphasizing the close relationship between paleobiology and other evolutionary disciplines, this book writes a new chapter in the history of evolutionary biology, while also offering insights into the dynamics of disciplinary change in ...
Quantitative Zoology . McGraw - Hill , New York . Sonneborn , T. M. 1941. Sexuality in unicellular organisms : 666–709 . In : Protosos in biological research , ed . by G. N. Calkins LITERATURE 311.