Scale-dependence of Cope's rule in body size evolution of Paleozoic brachiopods

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 5430-5434

  Novack Gottshall, Philip M ^a   Lanier, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body volume; Macroevolutionary trend; Maximum likelihood; Origin of clades; Species selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRACHIOPODA; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FAMILY; GENUS; GEOLOGY; HABITAT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM; PALEOZOIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; INVERTEBRATES; PALEONTOLOGY; TIME;

BRACHIOPODA;

EID: 44449132529     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0709645105     Document Type: Article

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