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150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency

150 million years of sustained increase in pterosaur flight efficiency

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

A cautionary note on the use of Ornstein Uhlenbeck models in macroevolutionary studies

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Adaptive evolution of four microcephaly genes and the evolution of brain size in anthropoid primates

scientific article published on 20 October 2010

Adaptive evolution toward larger size in mammals

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Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals

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Comparative biology of mammalian telomeres: hypotheses on ancestral states and the roles of telomeres in longevity determination

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

Comparison of conservation metrics in a case study of lemurs

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DO VARIATIONS IN SUBSTITUTION RATES AND MALE MUTATION BIAS CORRELATE WITH LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS? A STUDY OF 32 MAMMALIAN GENOMES

scientific article (publication date: 20 June 2011)

Detecting the node-density artifact in phylogeny reconstruction

scientific article published in August 2006

Dinosaurs in decline tens of millions of years before their final extinction

scientific article (publication date: 3 May 2016)

Dinosaurs reveal the geographical signature of an evolutionary radiation

scientific article published on 05 February 2018

Energetics, lifestyle, and reproduction in birds

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Evolution: Eating away at the social brain

scientific article published on 27 March 2017

Extreme and rapid bursts of functional adaptations shape bite force in amniotes

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Fundamental insights into ontogenetic growth from theory and fish

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How body mass and lifestyle affect juvenile biomass production in placental mammals

scientific article (publication date: 22 February 2014)

Human frontal lobes are not relatively large

scientific article published on May 13, 2013

Independent evolution of shape and motility allows evolutionary flexibility in Firmicutes bacteria.

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Languages evolve in punctuational bursts

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Large punctuational contribution of speciation to evolutionary divergence at the molecular level

scientific article published in October 2006

Model misspecification not the node-density artifact.

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Multiple routes to mammalian diversity

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Nothing Wrong with the Analysis of Clades in Comparative Evolutionary Studies: A Reply to Poe et al

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

Phylogenetic mixture models can reduce node-density artifacts

scientific article published in April 2008

Phylogenetic non-independence in rates of trait evolution

scientific article published on 03 October 2018

Phylogenies reveal new interpretation of speciation and the Red Queen.

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Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals.

scientific article published in September 2010

Placentation and maternal investment in mammals.

scientific article published on 18 November 2010

Plenty of room for punctuational change

scientific article published on 31 December 2013

Rapid Change in Mammalian Eye Shape Is Explained by Activity Pattern

scientific article published on 07 March 2019

Rapid Evolution of the Cerebellum in Humans and Other Great Apes

scientific article published on 01 April 2017

Rapid decreases in relative testes mass among monogamous birds but not in other vertebrates

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Rapid evolution of the cerebellum in humans and other great apes

scientific article published on 2 October 2014

Reply to Smaers: Getting human frontal lobes in proportion

scientific article published on September 2013

Speciation as an active force in promoting genetic evolution

scientific article published on 31 August 2009

The ancient Britons: groundwater fauna survived extreme climate change over tens of millions of years across NW Europe.

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The decoupled nature of basal metabolic rate and body temperature in endotherm evolution

scientific article published on 15 August 2019

The role of life history traits in mammalian invasion success

scientific article published on 21 August 2015

Transitions between foot postures are associated with elevated rates of body size evolution in mammals

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

‘Residual diversity estimates’ do not correct for sampling bias in palaeodiversity data

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