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The hypothesis of adaptive radiation in evolutionary biology: hard facts about a hazy concept

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Soulebeau, Anaëlle, Aubriot, Xavier, Gaudeul, Myriam, Rouhan, Germinal, Hennequin, Sabine, Haevermans, Thomas, Dubuisson, Jean-Yves, Jabbour, Florian (2015): The hypothesis of adaptive radiation in evolutionary biology: hard facts about a hazy concept. Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N.Y.) 15 (4): 747-761, DOI: 10.1007/s13127-015-0220-z, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13127-015-0220-z

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