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Inordinate Fondness Multiplied And Redistributed: The Number Of Species On Earth And The New Pie Of Life

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Brendan B. Larsen, Elizabeth C. Miller, Matthew K. Rhodes, John J. Wiens (2017): Inordinate Fondness Multiplied And Redistributed: The Number Of Species On Earth And The New Pie Of Life. The Quarterly Review of Biology 92 (3): 229-265, DOI: 10.1086/693564

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