The million-year wait for macroevolutionary bursts

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 38, 2011, Pages 15908-15913

  Uyeda, Josef C ^a   Hansen, Thomas F ^b   Arnold, Stevan J ^a   Pienaar, Jason ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Evolutionary rate; Macroevolution; Microevolution; Phylogenetic signal; Stasis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRD; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOSSIL; HISTORY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; FOSSILS; GENETIC VARIATION; LINEAR MODELS; LIZARDS; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

AVES; MAMMALIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 80053159410     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014503108     Document Type: Article

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