Testing for DepCrossed D sign©ret's Rule (Body Size Increase) in Mammals using Combined Extinct and Extant Data

Systematic Biology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 98-108

  Bokma, Folmer ^a   Godinot, Marc ^b   Maridet, Olivier ^c   Ladevèze, Sandrine ^d   Costeur, Loïc ^e   SolÉ, Floréal ^f   Gheerbrant, Emmanuel ^d   Peigné, Stéphane ^d   Jacques, Florian ^d   Laurin, Michel ^d  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c Jurassica Museum   (Switzerland)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Body size; Cope's rule; macroevolution; paleontology; phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; MAMMAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; MAMMALS;

EID: 84960464659     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syv075     Document Type: Article

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