Ancestral states and evolutionary rates of continuous characters

Morphology, Shape and Phylogeny

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 247-268

  Webster, Andrea J ^a   Purvis, Andy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85056428992     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9780203165171     Document Type: Chapter

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