Uncertainty in the reconstruction of ancestral character states and limitations on the use of phylogenetic comparative methods

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1319-1324

  Losos, J B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 0033403532     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1261     Document Type: Editorial

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