Integrating Paleontological and Phylogenetic Approaches to Macroevolution

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 47, Issue , 2016, Pages 189-213

  Hunt, Gene ^a   Slater, Graham ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversification; Fossil record; Molecular phylogeny; Phylogenetic comparative methods; Trait evolution

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84994519611     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-112414-054207     Document Type: Article

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