Quantifying passive and driven large-scale evolutionary trends

Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 849-858

  Wang, S C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of skewness; Driven trend; Evolutionary trends; Macroevolution; Passive trend; Subclade test; Trend partitioning

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; SKEWNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; BRACHIOPODA; INVERTEBRATA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0034978730     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2001.tb00602.x     Document Type: Article

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