Scientists prefer them blind: The history of hypogean fish research

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 62, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 43-71

  Romero, Aldemaro ^a  

^a MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Evolutionary progress; Neo Darwinism; Neo Lamarckism; Orthogenesis; Regressive evolution; Typological thinking

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ICHTHYOFAUNA; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0034765941     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011830329016     Document Type: Article

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