Do species populations really start small? New perspectives from the Late Neogene fossil record of African mammals

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1442, 2004, Pages 285-293

  Vrba, E S ^a,c   DeGusta, D ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Kline Geology Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

African mammals; Isolated small populations; Late Neogene; Physical change; Speciation; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; FOSSIL RECORD; MAMMAL; NEOGENE; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); VICARIANCE;

AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 1242321489     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1397     Document Type: Conference Paper

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