Adaptation and the goals of evolutionary research

Quarterly Review of Biology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 1-32

  Reeve, Hudson Kern ^a   Sherman, Paul W ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION; FITNESS;

EID: 0027801886     PISSN: 00335770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/417909     Document Type: Article

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