Homage to Santa Rosalia or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals?

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• Publication year

  1959

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  1959-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1086/282070
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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