SHORT COMMUNICATION: Little evidence for Cope’s rule from Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of extant mammals

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Journal of Evolutionary Biology

• Publication date

  2010-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02051.xPMID 20629852
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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