Multivariate Analysis of Pleistocene and Recent Coyotes (Canis Latrans) From California (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Influences from genetic and zoological research as well as evaluations of their own material have prompted paleontologists to greater concern for the nature and characteristics of the populations of which their fossil specimens are generally very small samples. This interest can lead to a consideration of possible ways of deter mining the extent and expression of inter and intrapopulation variation and the means whereby it may be taken into account. Methods of elucidating the relation ships among populations, the units of evolution, are of prime importance. Multi variate analysis provides one mode of attack on these problems.

The biological significance of linear measurements from a specimen with irreg ular morphology may be open to some question, but it is standard practice to use them in taxonomic studies - either actual dimensions or merely their relative pro portions. The measurements taken of the coyotes are of the sort used in such studies. The proposed taxonomic distinctions among the canids considered here have been almost uniformly based on quantitative differences, as is indicated throughout.

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