Stabilizing selection and the comparative analysis of adaptation

Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1341-1351

  Hansen, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Comparative method; Macroevolution; Optimality; Phylogenetic constraint; Stabilizing selection

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0030772835     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb01457.x     Document Type: Article

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