The continuity of microevolution and macroevolution

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 688-701

  Simons, Andrew M ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Bet hedging strategy; Environmental variance; Evolutionary constraint; Geometric mean fitness; Macroevolution; Mass extinction; Microevolution; Natural selection; Optimality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BET-HEDGING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION;

EID: 0036711615     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.2002.00437.x     Document Type: Article

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