Contrasting the underlying patterns of active trends in morphologic evolution

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 990-1007

  Wagner, Peter J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraints; mass extinctions; phylogenetic effects; sorting; specification; trends; Wright's Rule

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GASTROPOD; MORPHOGENESIS; PALAEOZOIC;

EID: 0029663584     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb02341.x     Document Type: Article

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