What is wrong with absolute individual fitness?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 245-248

  Wilson, David Sloan ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION;

EID: 1942521235     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2004.02.008     Document Type: Article

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