Completing the neo-Darwinian synthesis with an event criterion

Cladistics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 613-633

  Kluge, Arnold G ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; HOMOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 36949033615     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00165.x     Document Type: Article

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