Diversification of the metazoa: Ediacarans, colonies, and the origin of eumetazoan complexity by nested modularity

Historical Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 93-118

  Dewel, Ruth Ann ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal metazoan stem groups; Colonies; Complexity; Ediacaran; Growth; Integration; Metazoa; Modularity; Neoproterozoic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041808387     PISSN: 08912963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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