Evolutionary quantitative genetics: Are we in danger of throwing out the baby with the bathwater?

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 315-320

  Roff, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 0141683623     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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