The maximum rate of mammal evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4187-4190

  Evansa, Alistair R ^a   Jones, David ^a,b   Boyer, Alison G ^c   Brown, James H ^d,e   Costa, Daniel P ^f   Ernest, S K Morgan ^g   Fitzgerald, Erich M G ^h   Fortelius, Mikael ⁱ   Gittleman, John L ^j   Hamilton, Marcus J ^d,e   Harding, Larisa E ^k   Lintulaakso, Kari ⁱ   Lyons, S Kathleen ^l   Okie, Jordan G ^d,m   Saarinen, Juha J ⁱ   Sibly, Richard M ⁿ   Smith, Felisa A ^d   Stephens, Patrick R ^j   Theodor, Jessica M ^o   Uhen, Mark D ^p  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^k UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^l SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^m ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^p GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Biological time; Haldanes; Pedomorphosis; Scaling

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; BIOLOGY; BODY MASS; CARNIVORA; CETACEA; DWARFISM; EVOLUTION; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PERISSODACTYLA; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBOSCIDEA (MAMMALS); RODENT; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY WEIGHT; MAMMALS; MICE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TIME FACTORS;

CETACEA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84863229913     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120774109     Document Type: Article

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