Gulliver's further travels: The necessity and difficulty of a hierarchical theory of selection

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1366, 1998, Pages 307-314

  Gould, Stephen Jay ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisher, r. A; Hierarchical selection; Punctuated equilibrium; Scaling and allometry; Species; Species selection

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHIAL THEORY; NATURAL SELECTION; PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM; SPECIATION;

ANIMALIA; MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 0032574347     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0211     Document Type: Article

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