Confounding asymmetries in evolutionary diversification and character change

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1743-1746

  Maddison, Wayne P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diversification; Evolutionary dead end; Extinction; Irreversibility; Phylogeny; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; EXTINCTION; PHYLOGENY; SIMULATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33750588239     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/05-666.1     Document Type: Article

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