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A 450 million years long latitudinal gradient in age-dependent extinction

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

A New Integrated Tool to Calculate and Map Bilateral Asymmetry on Three-Dimensional Digital Models

scientific article published in 2021

A New Tool for Digital Alignment in Virtual Anthropology

scientific article published on 22 February 2019

A new method for testing evolutionary rate variation and shifts in phenotypic evolution

scientific article published in 2018

A new, fast method to search for morphological convergence with shape data

scientific article published on 27 December 2019

Adaptive trends of sequence compositional complexity over pandemic time in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus

scientific article published on 8 November 2021

Additive effects of climate change and human hunting explain population decline and extinction in cave bears

article by Alessandro Mondanaro et al published 9 February 2019 in Boreas

Anagenesis and Cladogenesis Are Useful Island Biogeography Terms

scientific article published on 26 September 2018

Bacteria and parasites in Podarcis sicula and P. sicula klemmerii

Bite of the cats: relationships between functional integration and mechanical performance as revealed by mandible geometry

scientific article

Chewing on the trees: Constraints and adaptation in the evolution of the primate mandible

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Climate effects on archaic human habitats and species successions

scientific article published in 2022

Climate shifts orchestrated hominin interbreeding events across Eurasia

scientific article published on 10 August 2023

Conservation of salamanders in managed forests: Methods and costs of monitoring abundance and habitat selection

scientific article published in 2017

Cope's Rule and the Universal Scaling Law of Ornament Complexity

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Current Options for Visualization of Local Deformation in Modern Shape Analysis Applied to Paleobiological Case Studies

Darwinian shortfalls in biodiversity conservation

scientific article

Diversification Rates and the Evolution of Species Range Size Frequency Distribution

scientific article published in 2017

Does the jack of all trades fare best? Survival and niche width in Late Pleistocene megafauna

Ecological specialization in fossil mammals explains Cope's rule.

scientific article published on 19 January 2012

Editorial: Evolving Virtual and Computational Paleontology

Endomaker, a new algorithm for fully automatic extraction of cranial endocasts and the calculation of their volumes

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Evolution of Neogene Mammals in Eurasia: Environmental Forcing and Biotic Interactions

Evolution of the sabertooth mandible: A deadly ecomorphological specialization

scientific article published in 2018

Fragmentation of Neanderthals' pre-extinction distribution by climate change

scholarly article by Marina Melchionna published in May 2018

From Evolutionary Allometry to Sexual Display: (A Reply to Holman and Bro-Jørgensen).

scientific article published on 22 June 2016

From Smart Apes to Human Brain Boxes. A Uniquely Derived Brain Shape in Late Hominins Clade

Human influence on distribution and extinctions of the late Pleistocene Eurasian megafauna

scientific article

Impact of transition to a subterranean lifestyle on morphological disparity and integration in talpid moles (Mammalia, Talpidae)

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

Is the island rule general? Turtles disagree

scientific article published in 2014

Island Rule, quantitative genetics and brain-body size evolution in Homo floresiensis ⬇️

scientific article published in June 2017

Late Quaternary reptile extinctions: size matters, insularity dominates

scientific article published in 2016

Like a pig out of water: seaborne spread of domestic pigs in Southern Italy and Sardinia during the Bronze and Iron Ages.

scientific article

Living with the elephant in the room: Top-down control in Eurasian large mammal diversity over the last 22 million years

scholarly article by Alessandro Mondanaro published in November 2017

Longer in the tooth, shorter in the record? The evolutionary correlates of hypsodonty in Neogene ruminants

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2011)

MInOSSE: A new method to reconstruct geographic ranges of fossil species

scientific article published in 2020

MicroWeaR: A new R package for dental microwear analysis

scientific article published on 11 June 2018

Modeling the Population-Level Processes of Biodiversity Gain and Loss at Geological Timescales

scientific article published on 9 October 2015

Morphological integration and functional modularity in the crocodilian skull

scientific article published in August 2014

New Avenues for Old Travellers: Phenotypic Evolutionary Trends Meet Morphodynamics, and Both Enter the Global Change Biology Era

scientific article published on 16 August 2021

One size does not fit all: no evidence for an optimal body size on islands

article

Past Extinctions of Homo Species Coincided with Increased Vulnerability to Climatic Change

scientific article published in 2020

Phylogenetic fields through time: temporal dynamics of geographical co-occurrence and phylogenetic structure within species ranges

scientific article

Progress to extinction: increased specialisation causes the demise of animal clades

scientific article

Quantitative genetics of body size evolution on islands: an individual-based simulation approach

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Rapid action in the Palaeogene, the relationship between phenotypic and taxonomic diversification in Coenozoic mammals

scientific article (publication date: 7 January 2013)

Reproducing the internal and external anatomy of fossil bones: Two new automatic digital tools.

scientific article published on 21 April 2018

Reptilian all the way?

scientific article (publication date: 23 February 2010)

Simultaneous detection of macroevolutionary patterns in phenotypic means and rate of change with and within phylogenetic trees including extinct species

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Size matters: A comparative analysis of pig domestication

Slaying dragons: limited evidence for unusual body size evolution on islands

article

THE SHAPE OF CONTENTION: ADAPTATION, HISTORY, AND CONTINGENCY IN UNGULATE MANDIBLES

scientific article published on 10 December 2009

Testing evolutionary stasis and trends in first lower molar shape of extinct Italian populations of Terricola savii (Arvicolidae, Rodentia) by means of geometric morphometrics.

scientific article

Testing for changes in rate of evolution and position of the climatic niche of clades

scientific article published in 2022

The Gavialis-Tomistoma debate: the contribution of skull ontogenetic allometry and growth trajectories to the study of crocodylian relationships

The Lower Cretaceous lizard genus Chometokadmon from Italy

article

The blue lizard spandrel and the island syndrome

scientific article

The conceptual framework of ontogenetic trajectories: parallel transport allows the recognition and visualization of pure deformation patterns.

scientific article published in May 2016

The emergence of variants with increased fitness accelerates the slowdown of genome sequence heterogeneity in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus

scientific article published on 26 May 2022

The evolution of cranial base and face in Cercopithecoidea and Hominoidea: Modularity and morphological integration

scientific article published on 2 November 2017

The evolution of large mammal communities: beyond biochronology

The influence of climate on species distribution over time and space during the late Quaternary

scholarly article

The island rule in large mammals: paleontology meets ecology

scientific article published in August 2006

The island syndrome in lizards

article published in 2012

The number of competitor species is unlinked to sexual dimorphism

scientific article

The role of habitat fragmentation in Pleistocene megafauna extinction in Eurasia

scientific article published on 14 September 2021

The tempo and mode of evolution: body sizes of island mammals

scientific article

The well-behaved killer: Late Pleistocene humans in Eurasia were significantly associated with living megafauna only

scholarly article by F. Carotenuto published in July 2018

Too simple models may predict the island rule for the wrong reasons

scientific article published in 2021

Unexpectedly rapid evolution of mandibular shape in hominins.

scientific article

Using macroecological constraints on spatial biodiversity predictions under climate change: the modelling method matters

scientific article published in 2018

Venturing out safely: The biogeography of Homo erectus dispersal out of Africa

scientific article

Who is the most stressed? Morphological disparity and mechanical behavior of the feeding apparatus of ceratopsian dinosaurs (Ornithischia, Marginocephalia)

scientific article published in 2018

Wild boars’ social structure in the Mediterranean habitat

scientific article published in 2014

morphomap: An R package for long bone landmarking, cortical thickness, and cross-sectional geometry mapping

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

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