The Logical Basis for the use of Continuous Characters in Phylogenetic Systematics

Cladistics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 221-228

  Rae, Todd C ^a,b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001043263     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.1998.tb00335.x     Document Type: Article

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