… of body size evolution incorporates many insights regarding the ecological and physiological
significance of body size … to present complete models of body size evolution. Rather, we set …

… size is perhaps its most apparent characteristic. The recent outpouring of studies on the
influence of body size on all aspects of biology and evolution … the influence of body size on form …

… BODY SIZE continues to be one of the most important quantitative traits under … Body size
also exhibits prominent general evolutionary trends. Taxa are believed to evolve larger body …

… Furthermore, different mechanisms may drive body-size evolution … body size is not known.
We developed a generalized diffusion model of species body-size evolution, in which the size …

… to investigate rates of body mass evolution within ecoregions. … We conclude that the evolution
of mammalian body size has … body sizes and, hence, apparent evolution toward a body …

… body mass? We find that dinosaur evolution is constrained by attraction to discrete body size
optima that undergo rare, but abrupt, evolutionary shifts. This model explains both the rarity …

… Body size is a central element in current theories of life-history evolution. Models for optimal
… development time and adult size and that larger size provides a reproductive advantage. …

… is a dominant feature of animal evolution. However, little is known about how the underlying
… size change as body size evolves. Here we report on a case of body size evolution in the …

… size Figure 1 A graphical approach to the analysis of evolutionary changes in body Size, …
axis is the change in the upper bound of the size distribution of the species in a lineage, and the …

… absolute body masses to analyze patterns of body-size evolution; only relative body sizes
… Therefore, it is possible to substitute proxies (or correlates) for body size in place of actual …