The race for evolutionary success

Sustainability

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1787-1805

  Tonn, Bruce ^a   Stiefel, Dorian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral evolution; Biological evolution; Cultural evolution; Ecological evolution; Environmental scanning; Evolution; Extinction; Policy evolution; Regulatory evolution; Technological evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866026024     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su4081787     Document Type: Article

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