Morphological largess: Can morphology offer more and be modelled as a stochastic evolutionary process?

From Clone to Bone: The Synergy of Morphological and Molecular Tools in Palaeobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 83-115

  Larsson, Hans C E ^a   Dececchi, T Alexander ^a   Harrison, Luke B ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511760174.004     Document Type: Chapter

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