Testing the hypothesis of common ancestry

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 218, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 395-408

  Sober, Elliott ^a,b   Steel, Michael ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; EVOLUTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0036416151     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5193(02)93086-9     Document Type: Article

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