The fall and rise of Dr Pangloss: Adaptationism and the Spandrels paper 20 years later

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 66-70

  Pigliucci, Massimo ^a   Kaplan, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NATURAL SELECTION; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; REVIEW; THEORY;

EID: 0034144568     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01762-0     Document Type: Note

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