Helping students conceptualize species divergence events using the online tool "TimeTree: The timescale of life"

American Biology Teacher

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 106-108

  Metzger, Kelsey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimating species divergence times; Evolution; Phylogenetics; Software; Ttree thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551507654     PISSN: 00027685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/abt.2011.73.2.9     Document Type: Article

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