Evolution in Carnivora: Identifying a morphological bias

Carnivoran Evolution: New Views on Phylogeny, Form, and Function

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 189-224

  Holliday, Jill A ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139193436.008     Document Type: Chapter

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