Cross-Testing Adaptive Hypotheses: Phylogenetic Analysis and the Origin of Bird Flight1

Volume: 41, Issue: 3, Pages: 598 - 607
Published: Jun 1, 2001
Abstract
Adaptive scenarios in evolutionary biology have always been based on incremental improvements through a series of adaptive stages. But they have often been justified by appeal to assumptions of how natural selection must work or by appeal to optimality arguments or notions of evolutionary process. Cladistic methodology, though it cannot logically falsify hypotheses of process, provides hypotheses of evolutionary pattern independent of other...
Paper Details
Title
Cross-Testing Adaptive Hypotheses: Phylogenetic Analysis and the Origin of Bird Flight1
Published Date
Jun 1, 2001
Volume
41
Issue
3
Pages
598 - 607
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