Transforming Our Thinking about Transitional Forms

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 310-314

  Mead, Louise S ^a  

^a Natl Center for Science Education   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Creationism; Evograms; Macroevolution; Transitional features; Tree thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861981459     PISSN: 19366426     EISSN: 19366434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12052-009-0126-3     Document Type: Article

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