Evolutionary convergences and parallelisms: Their theoretical differences and the difficulty of discriminating them in a practical phylogenetic context

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 735-744

  Diogo, Rui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Catfishes; Convergences; Evolution; Morphology; Parallelisms; Phylogeny; Siluriformes; Teleostei

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FISH; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS;

SILURIFORMES; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33644591120     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-004-1604-1     Document Type: Article

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