Exhaustion of morphologic character states among fossil taxa

Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 365-386

  Wagner, Peter J ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Character spaces; Constraints; Exhaustion; Fossils; Homoplasy; Phylogeny; Saturation

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 0034060877     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb00040.x     Document Type: Article

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