Active trends, passive trends, Cope's rule and temporal scaling: New categorization of cladogenetic changes in body size

Historical Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 113-125

  Trammer, Jerzy ^a   Kaim, Andrzej ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Body size; Cope's rule; Evolutionary size change; Evolutionary trends

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION;

EID: 0032868277     PISSN: 08912963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08912969909386577     Document Type: Article

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