There is accumulating evidence that macroevolutionary patterns of mammal evolution
during the Cenozoic follow similar trajectories on different continents. This would suggest …

Body size is an overarching trait of taxa, related to virtually all aspects of their life history and
their relationships with the environment. In this chapter, we use the NOW data to summarize …

Ecology, evolution, and historical events all contribute to biogeographic patterns, but studies
that integrate them are scarce. Here we focus on how biotic exchanges of mammals during …

The transition of hominins to a largely meat-based diet∼ 1.8 million years ago led to the
exploitation of other mammals for food and resources. As hominins, particularly archaic and …

A classic question in evolutionary biology concerns the tempo and mode of lineage
evolution. Considered variously in relation to resource utilization, intrinsic constraints or …

Because body size interacts with many fundamental biological properties of a species, body
size evolution can be an essential component of the generation and maintenance of …

Body size correlates with virtually every aspect of species biology, so understanding the
tempo and mode of its evolution is of key importance in macroecology and macroevolution …

The island rule is the phenomenon of the miniaturization of large animals and the gigantism
of small animals on islands, with mammals providing the classic case studies. Several …

The climatic cooling during the Cenozoic (65 Ma–present) culminated in the Pleistocene Ice
Ages (ca. 2.6 Ma–10 000 BP) during which the global climate oscillated between relatively …

Species selection, covariation of species' traits with their net diversification rates, is an
important component of macroevolution. Most studies have relied on indirect evidence for its …