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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Living Fossil"”.
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Unconquerable Monsters Of The Imperial Periphery: Early Dinosaur Fiction, 1864-1912
… "dinosaur fiction" as narratives that feature living fossil reptiles in the modern world and looks to the emergent period of dinosaur fiction, 1864-1912, for patterns of representational practices and ideologies. An analysis of Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, James De Mille's …
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Understanding Patterns of Phenotypic Variation in a Contemporary Population and Ancient Lineage of Fishes
… phenotypic diversity within populations are ‘living fossils’, lineages thought to have undergone very little phenotypic change over millions of years of evolutionary history. Thus, the existence of living fossils poses an interesting question: Given the combined influences of genetic and …
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Systematics and evolutionary biology of the Weevils associated with cycads in Australia
… palm-like gymnosperms, commonly known as "living fossils" as they arose in the late Paleozoic and were much more diverse and dominant during the Mesozoic. Modern cycads underwent a recent global diversification in Miocene (ca. 11-20 mya). Even though cycads were long thought to be …
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Systematics and evolutionary biology of the Weevils associated with cycads in Australia
… palm-like gymnosperms, commonly known as "living fossils" as they arose in the late Paleozoic and were much more diverse and dominant during the Mesozoic. Modern cycads underwent a recent global diversification in Miocene (ca. 11-20 mya). Even though cycads were long thought to be …