Body mass is strongly related to both physiological and ecological properties of living
organisms. As a result, generating robust, broadly applicable models for estimating body …

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

Estimates of body mass often represent the founding assumption on which biomechanical
and macroevolutionary hypotheses are based. Recently, a scaling equation was applied to …

Interpretation of the adaptive profile of ancestral primates is controversial and has been
constrained for decades by general acceptance of the premise that the first primates were …

Understanding ontogenetic patterns is important in vertebrate paleontology because the
assessed skeletal maturity of an individual often has implications for paleobiogeography …

The observed diversity of dinosaurs reached its highest peak during the mid-and Late
Cretaceous, the 50 Myr that preceded their extinction, and yet this explosion of dinosaur …

Cope's rule, the tendency for species within a lineage to evolve towards larger body size,
has been widely reported in the fossil record, but the mechanisms leading to such phyletic …

The average body size of brachiopods from a single habitat type increased gradually by
more than two orders of magnitude during their initial Cambrian–Devonian radiation. This …

Many hypotheses have been proposed for the rise of dinosaurs, but their early diversification
remains poorly understood. This paper examines the occurrences, species diversity and …

The distribution of species body size within taxonomic groups exhibits a heavy right tail
extending over many orders of magnitude, where most species are much larger than the …