Population thinking and tree thinking in systematics

Zoologica Scripta

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 323-329

  O'Hara, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031430556     PISSN: 03003256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1997.tb00422.x     Document Type: Article

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