Darwin's bridge between microevolution and macroevolution

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7231, 2009, Pages 837-842

  Reznick, David N ^a   Ricklefs, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BIOGENESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIFESPAN; MACROFOSSIL; MICROFOSSIL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS; NATURAL SCIENCE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION;

EID: 60149103784     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07894     Document Type: Review

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