Evolutionary Novelty and the Evo-Devo Synthesis: Field Notes

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 93-99

  Brigandt, Ingo ^a   Love, Alan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Concepts; Evolutionary developmental biology; Evolutionary innovation; Evolutionary novelty; Interdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956339265     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-010-9083-6     Document Type: Article

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