Key innovations and the ecology of macroevolution

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-36

  Hunter, John P ^a  

^a NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVERSIFICATION; KEY INNOVATION; MACROEVOLUTION; PHENOTYPIC DIVERSITY;

ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0031916854     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(97)01273-1     Document Type: Article

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