Problematic issues of cladistics: 15. Semaphoronts, individuals, and persistence

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-77

  Reif, Wolf Ernst ^a  

^a Institut fur Geowissenschaften   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endurantism; Evolution; Individuality; Perdurantism; Punctuated equilibria; Species concepts; Stage theory

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; NOMENCLATURE; PALEONTOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

EID: 28944436223     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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