… contribute to the trend? Before we consider body size trends in three very different animal
groups, we first make some general procedural points about how trends can most insightfully …

… responsible for evolutionary trends in body size dates back … and physiological significance
of body size that would greatly … to present complete models of body size evolution. Rather, we …

… , body size evolution can be an essential component of the generation and maintenance of
biodiversity. Here we investigate how body size evolution … We analyse an extensive body size …

… Among pygostylians, the Songlinornithidae, a clade of ornithuromorphs that includes
Yanornis and Yixianornis in our trees, exhibit a strong trend of body size increase (μ = 0.098 per …

… To more formally characterize overall body size trends in Poseidonamicus, we divided the
timescale into 1 million-year bins and calculated the mean valve length for all populations …

… a net evolutionary size decrease. Thus the undisputed ecological importance of body size
does … (The genus is a standard level of analysis for body-size trends, as discussions of Cope's …

… Here, trends in body size evolution in the Canidae are examined … origination and extinction
as a function of body size. … explain the evolutionary dynamics of canid body size evolution …

… S i is a useful measure for visualization of patterns with respect to the island rule (ie tendencies
for gigantism or dwarfism), I also analysed the statistical significance of body size trends …

… Perhaps surprisingly, none of these studies has focused on body-size evolution in nonavian
dinosaurs (hereafter referred to as" dinosaurs"), a group for which body size increases are …

… of body size on all aspects of biology and evolution and the … , the study of the influence of
body size on form and function, … a lineage trend toward larger body size with evolutionary time…