Evolutionary patterns in early tetrapods. II. Differing constraints on available character space among clades
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Evolutionary patterns in early tetrapods. II. Differing constraints on available character space among clades.
Radiations of large clades often accompany rapid morphological diversification. Evolutionary biologists debate the impact of external restrictions imposed by ecology, and intrinsic constraints imposed by development and genetics, on the rate at which morphological innovations are gained. These issues are particularly interesting for groups such as tetrapods, which evolved novel body plans relat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3561