Thomas Kuhn is alive and well: The evolutionary relationships of simple life forms - A paradigm under siege?

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 359-376

  Lyons, Sherrie ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BIOSPHERE; CELL FUNCTION; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; KUHNIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0036430219     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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