The importance of experimental studies in evolutionary biology

Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods, and Applications of Selection Experiments

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 15-30

  Futuyma, Douglas J ^a   Bennett, Albert F ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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