Evolutionary Trends

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 259-273

  Gregory, T Ryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body size; Complexity; Cope's Rule; Driven trend; Evolution; Extinction; Natural selection; Passive trend; Speciation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855597535     PISSN: 19366426     EISSN: 19366434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12052-008-0055-6     Document Type: Article

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