Phylogenetic Constraint in Evolutionary Theory: Has It Any Explanatory Power?

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  1993

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  Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

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  Biology, Mathematics, Philosophy

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  DOI 10.1146/ANNUREV.ES.24.110193.001515
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