Individual-level selection as a cause of cope's rule of phyletic size increase

Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1608-1612

  Kingsolver, Joel G ^a   Pfennig, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size evolution; Directional selection; Macroevolution; Microevolution; Natural selection; Selection gradient; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

EID: 3543128914     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01740.x     Document Type: Article

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