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The Invertebrate Tree of Life is an invaluable work for anyone entering or already working in the field of invertebrate evolution, taxonomy, and phylogenetics. By unlocking and reviewing a huge body of literature, identifying knowledge gaps, and providing a balanced overview of both current consensus views and disagreements, Giribet and Edgecombe provide an incredibly useful community service, making this work a benchmark for the future."
---Leon Vlieger, Inquisitive Biologist"[For] true researchers, it is an amazing synthesis likely to serve as a landmark reference for years."
---S.R. Fegley, Choice"[An] essential resource for academics as well as their students."
---Douglas H. Erwin, The Quarterly Review of Biology"[A] highly welcome modern book with a refreshing outlook on a classic subject, that will prove extremely useful to zoologists around the world."
---Thomas Stach, Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research"The book provides a wonderful work of synthesis of classic and most recent analyses, incorporating genomic data and the new technologies that led to modern phylogenomics, exploring current debates and contrasting previous phylogenetic hypotheses."
---Juan J. Morrone, Frontiers of Biogeography"[
The Invertebrate Tree of Life] is in all respects a work of great scholarship, a masterpiece of science, a book for its time."
---David Gascoigne, Travels with Birds"The enthusiasm of the authors for their subject translates well onto paper. . . . this book represents a useful and timely contribution to the field of invertebrate evolution and taxonomy."
---P. Buckley, The Malacologist