Phylogenetic evidence for a shift in the mode of mammalian body size evolution at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 734-744

  Slater, Graham J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Brownian motion; Comparative methods; Evolutionary rates; Fossils; Macroevolution; Mammals; Ornstein Uhlenbeck

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881606628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12084     Document Type: Article

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