SUGGESTIONS AS TO QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF RATES OF EVOLUTION

EvolutionPublished 1 March 1949

J. B. S. Haldane

DOI10.1111/j.1558-5646.1949.tb00004.x

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The best known recent work on rates of evolution is probably that of Simpson (1944), though Small's (1945, 1946) work on diatoms is more extensive, and Small is concerned with the origin of species, which in this group seems to be a sudden or almost sudden process.

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Journal Article SUGGESTIONS AS TO QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF RATES OF EVOLUTION Get access J. B. S. Haldane J. B. S. Haldane Dept. of Biometry University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Evolution, Volume 3, Issue 1, 1 March 1949, Pages 51–56, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1949.tb00004.x Published: 01 March 1949 Article history Received: 05 November 1948 Published: 01 March 1949

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