The role of fossils in phylogeny reconstruction: Why is it so difficult to integrate paleobiological and neontological evolutionary biology?

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 687-720

  Grantham, Todd ^a  

^a School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Integration; Stratigraphy; Stratocladistics; Unification

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 2442611965     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-005-0370-z     Document Type: Review

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