A recent study showed evidence that endothermy was ancestral for amniotes using a variety
of proxies and a large sample of taxa. However, it did not include numerous crucial taxa. We …

Endothermy and its evolution are still an unresolved issue. Here, we present a model which
transforms an ectothermic amniote (ancestor) into a derived amniote (descendant) showing …

Endothermy, ie the endogenous production of metabolic heat, has evolved multiple times
among vertebrates, and several strategies of heat production have been studied extensively …

Several mutually incompatible theories exist about how and why endothermy evolved in
mammals and birds. Some take the primary function to have been thermoregulation …

Ectothermy is a primitive state; therefore, a shared common ancestor of crocodiles,
dinosaurs, and birds was at some point ectothermic. Birds, the extant descendants of the …

During the past 30 years, the evolution of endothermy has been a topic of keen interest to
palaeontologists and evolutionary physiologists. While palaeontologists have found …

The whole‐body (tachymetabolic) endothermy seen in modern birds and mammals is long
held to have evolved independently in each group, a reasonable assumption when it was …

The evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals was one of the most important events in
the evolution of the vertebrates. Past tests of hypotheses on the evolution of endothermy in …

We suggest that mammalian endothermy was established amongst Middle Jurassic crown
mammals, through reviewing state‐of‐the‐art fossil and living mammal studies. This is …

Our argument (Bennett and Dalzell, 1973) with Bakker has never concerned the possession
of endothermy by dinosaurs. It rather deals with the logical methods employed on …