Evolving entities: Towards a unified framework for understanding diversity at the species and higher levels

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1547, 2010, Pages 1801-1813

  Barraclough, Timothy G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Diversity; Higher taxa; Speciation; Species

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

EID: 77953596689     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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