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List of works by P. David Polly

A Bayesian extension of phylogenetic generalized least squares: Incorporating uncertainty in the comparative study of trait relationships and evolutionary rates

scientific article published on 02 January 2020

A reevaluation of the Harrodsburg Crevice fauna (late Pleistocene of Indiana, U.S.A.) and the climatic implications of its mammals

Adaptive Zones and the Pinniped Ankle: A Three-Dimensional Quantitative Analysis of Carnivoran Tarsal Evolution

Adaptive radiation of damselfishes (Perciformes, Pomacentridae) in the eastern Pacific

scientific article published in 2015

Author Correction: Larger mammals have longer faces because of size-related constraints on skull form

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Brain enlargement and dental reduction were not linked in hominin evolution

scientific article published on 03 January 2017

Cladistics and the Fossil Record: The Uses of History

Climate and Competition Shape Species' Borders: A Study of the Panamint (Crotalus stephensi) and Speckled (Crotalus mitchellii) Rattlesnakes

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Climate and morphological change on decadal scales: Multiannual variation in the common shrew Sorex araneus in northeast Russia

scholarly article by Eugene A. Poroshin et al published September 2010 in Acta Theriologica

Combining geometric morphometrics and finite element analysis with evolutionary modeling: towards a synthesis

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Community functional trait composition at the continental scale: the effects of non-ecological processes

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Cope's Rule

Development and evolution occlude: evolution of development in mammalian teeth

scientific article (publication date: 19 December 2000)

Development and phenotypic correlations: the evolution of tooth shape in Sorex araneus

scientific article published in January 2005

Development with a bite

scientific article published in Nature

Developmental Dynamics and G-Matrices: Can Morphometric Spaces be Used to Model Phenotypic Evolution?

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Differential sexual dimorphism: size and shape in the cranium and pelvis of grey foxes (Urocyon)

article by HEIDI SCHUTZ et al published 21 January 2009 in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Dissociation of somatic growth from segmentation drives gigantism in snakes

scientific article published on June 2007

Do Developmental Constraints and High Integration Limit the Evolution of the Marsupial Oral Apparatus?

scientific article

EARLIEST KNOWN CARNIVORAN AUDITORY BULLA AND SUPPORT FOR A RECENT ORIGIN OF CROWN-GROUP CARNIVORA (EUTHERIA, MAMMALIA)

scientific article (publication date: 30 August 2006)

ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN RHIPIDOMELLA (ORTHIDES, BRACHIOPODA) AND ITS ENDOSKELETOBIONTS AND PREDATORS FROM THE MIDDLE DEVONIAN DUNDEE FORMATION OF OHIO, UNITED STATES

scientific article published in 2010

Ecometrics: the traits that bind the past and present together

scientific article

Erratum: Giant boid snake from the Paleocene neotropics reveals hotter past equatorial temperatures

scientific article published in Nature

Evaluating the significance of paleophylogeographic species distribution models in reconstructing quaternary range-shifts of nearctic chelonians

scientific article

Evolution of the snake body form reveals homoplasy in amniote Hox gene function

scientific article published on 5 January 2015

Evolution: stuck between the teeth

scientific article published in May 2013

Evolutionary acceleration in the most endangered mammal of Canada: speciation and divergence in the Vancouver Island marmot (Rodentia, Sciuridae).

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Evolutionary studies: genetics, development, and palaeontology interlock

scientific article published in March 2006

Fossil herbivores and crocodiles as paleoclimatic indicators of environmental shifts from Bed I and Bed II times of the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

scholarly article by Silvia H. Ascari published in September 2018

Fossils reveal the complex evolutionary history of the mammalian regionalized spine

scientific article published in Science

From card catalogs to computers: databases in vertebrate paleontology

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Gene networks, occlusal clocks, and functional patches: new understanding of pattern and process in the evolution of the dentition

scientific article published on 19 May 2015

Giant boid snake from the Palaeocene neotropics reveals hotter past equatorial temperatures

scientific article

Head et al. reply

scientific article published in Nature

History matters: ecometrics and integrative climate change biology

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2011)

Including Fossils in Phylogenetic Climate Reconstructions: A Deep Time Perspective on the Climatic Niche Evolution and Diversification of Spiny Lizards (Sceloporus).

scientific article published on 8 June 2016

Influence of atrypid morphological shape on Devonian episkeletobiont assemblages from the lower Genshaw formation of the Traverse Group of Michigan: A geometric morphometric approach

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Larger mammals have longer faces because of size-related constraints on skull form

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Mammal disparity decreases during the Cretaceous angiosperm radiation

scientific article (publication date: 22 November 2013)

Marsupial responses to global aridification

scientific article published in Science

Measuring the evolution of body size in mammals

scientific article (publication date: 13 March 2012)

Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article

Morphological integration in the hominin dentition: evolutionary, developmental, and functional factors

scientific article published on 5 January 2012

Movement adds bite to the evolutionary morphology of mammalian teeth

scientific article (publication date: 16 August 2012)

Multigenic and morphometric differentiation of ground squirrels (Spermophilus, Scuiridae, Rodentia) in Turkey, with a description of a new species

scientific article

No known hominin species matches the expected dental morphology of the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans

scientific article published 5 November 2013

Notes from the Anatolian underground: two new mole taxa from Eastern Turkey, together with a revised phylogeny of the genus <i>Talpa</i> (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Talpidae)

scientific article published in 2023

Of mice and mutations: phenotypic effects of the diabetic db/db and ob/ob mutations on the skull and teeth of mice

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On morphological clocks and paleophylogeography: towards a timescale for Sorex hybrid zones

scientific article published in January 2001

On the Occlusal Fit of Tribosphenic Molars: Are We Underestimating Species Diversity in the Mesozoic?

Paleontology and the comparative method: ancestral node reconstructions versus observed node values

scientific article

Phenotypic variation across chromosomal hybrid zones of the common shrew (Sorex araneus) indicates reduced gene flow

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Phylogenetic and environmental components of morphological variation: skull, mandible, and molar shape in marmots (Marmota, Rodentia).

scientific article published in November 2005

Pleistocene Climate, Phylogeny, and Climate Envelope Models: An Integrative Approach to Better Understand Species' Response to Climate Change

scientific article published on December 2, 2011

Processes of ecometric patterning: modelling functional traits, environments, and clade dynamics in deep time

Quantitative genetics provides predictive power for paleontological studies of morphological evolution

scientific article published on 05 August 2016

Response to environmental factors and competition: skull, mandible and tooth shapes in Polish water shrews (Neomys, Soricidae, Mammalia)

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Selection in a cycling population: differential response among skeletal traits

scientific article published in September 2006

Shape, variance and integration during craniogenesis: contrasting marsupial and placental mammals

scientific article published on 22 February 2012

Stops making sense: translational trade-offs and stop codon reassignment

scientific article (publication date: 29 July 2011)

Synthesizing and databasing fossil calibrations: divergence dating and beyond

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2011)

Taxonomic and evolutionary pattern revisions resulting from geometric morphometric analysis of Pennsylvanian Neognathodus conodonts, Illinois Basin

Temporal lobe evolution in Javanese Homo erectus and African Homo ergaster: Inferences from the cranial base

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

The Fossil Calibration Database-A New Resource for Divergence Dating

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The evolution of relative trait size and shape: insights from the genitalia of dung beetles

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

The influence of modularity on cranial morphological disparity in Carnivora and Primates (Mammalia)

scientific article (publication date: 3 March 2010)

The macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration: from development to deep time

scientific article

The role of dispersal, selection intensity, and extirpation risk in resilience to climate change: A trait‐based modelling approach

scientific article published on 31 March 2022

The skeleton of Gazinocyon vulpeculus gen. et comb. nov. and the cladistic relationships of Hyaenodontidae (Eutheria, Mammalia)

Trait-based extinction catches the Red Queen napping during the Cambrian

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