BODY SHAPE METRICS AND ORGANISMAL EVOLUTION
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Body Shape Metrics and Organismal Evolution.
LoRRAiNE M. CHERRy,1"5 SUSAN M. CASE,2 JOSEPH G. KUNKEL,3 JEFF S. WYLES"4 AND ALLAN C. WILSON' 'Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 2Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 3Department of Zoology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 and 4Department of Biology, University of Houston, Hous...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evolution
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0014-3820,1558-5646
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1982.tb05463.x