AN EXPLANATION FOR COPE'S RULE

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• Publication year

  1973

• Venue

  Evolution; international journal of organic evolution

• Publication date

  1973-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Philosophy

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1973.tb05912.xPMID 28563664
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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