The dating game: A reply to Heads (2010)

Zoologica Scripta

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 406-409

  Goswami, Anjali ^a   Upchurch, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 77954908039     PISSN: 03003256     EISSN: 14636409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00433.x     Document Type: Letter

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