Evolutionary dynamics of vertebrate body mass range

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 685-693

  Gillman, Michael P ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body mass range; Brownian process; Cope's rule; Primates; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIMATE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; PRIMATES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATES;

LEMURIFORMES; PLATYRRHINI; PLESIADAPIFORMES; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34247511656     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00060.x     Document Type: Article

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