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Transitional Evolutionary Forms

Transitional Evolutionary Forms is a theoretical construct in evolutionary biology that represents intermediate phenotypic or genotypic states capturing the gradual morphological, functional, or developmental changes between ancestral and derived lineages during the emergence of evolutionary novelties.

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300

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199

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2017–2026

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Transitional Forms

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Publications

91

THE MAJOR TRANSITIONS OF EVOLUTION

Egbert Giles Leigh · Evolution · 1995 · 3K citations · Full text

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Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs

Bruce A. Curtis, Goro Tanifuji, Fabien Burki et al. · Nature · 2012 · 429 citations · Full text

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From extracellular to intracellular: the establishment of mitochondria and chloroplasts

Jean M. Whatley, P. John, F. R. Whatley · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 1979 · 275 citations

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A 33,000-Year-Old Incipient Dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia: Evidence of the Earliest Domestication Disrupted by the Last Glacial Maximum

Nikolai D. Ovodov, Susan J. Crockford, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin et al. · PLoS ONE · 2011 · 244 citations · Full text

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Three RNA cells for ribosomal lineages and three DNA viruses to replicate their genomes: A hypothesis for the origin of cellular domain

Patrick Forterre · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · 242 citations · Full text

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Authors

300

  1. RS
    Richard Shine

    The University of Sydney, Australia

    3 publications · 149 citations

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  2. PS
    Peter Schönswetter

    University of Vienna, Austria

    2 publications · 50 citations

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  3. HB
    Harvey B. Lillywhite

    University of Florida, United States

    2 publications · 119 citations

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  4. AR
    Andrea Ravignani

    Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

    2 publications · 45 citations

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  5. TR
    Teresa Raimondi

    University of Turin, Italy

    2 publications · 45 citations

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Institutions

199

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    4 h-index

    12 publications

    2.2K citations

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    4 h-index

    12 publications

    228 citations

  3. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

    Panama City, Panama

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    3.1K citations

  4. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    251 citations

  5. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

    Buenos Aires, Argentina

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    154 citations

  6. Natural History Museum

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    889 citations

  7. Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology

    Nanjing, China

    3 h-index

    10 publications

    172 citations

  8. University of the Witwatersrand

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    158 citations

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Venues

  1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 4 publications · 612 citations

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  2. Integrative and Comparative Biology

    3 publications · 112 citations

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  3. Evolution Education and Outreach

    3 publications · 107 citations

    3

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  4. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

    JVP · 3 publications · 78 citations

    3

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  5. American Journal of Botany

    2 publications · 67 citations

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