The exquisite corpse: A shifting view of the shifting balance

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 347-348

  Whitlock, Michael C ^a   Phillips, Patrick C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE;

EID: 0033844436     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(00)01930-3     Document Type: Short Survey

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