Evolutionary stasis, constraint and other terminology describing evolutionary patterns

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 509-517

  Burt, D Brent ^a  

^a STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraint; Effects; Evolutionary acceleration; Inertia; Momentum; Stasis; Thrust

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034948949     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.2000.0512     Document Type: Article

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