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 …

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 …

Body size affects nearly all aspects of organismal biology, so it is important to understand
the constraints and dynamics of body size evolution. Despite empirical work on the …

An organism's body size tells us a lot about how it makes a living, suggesting that body size
is a key parameter in evolution. We outline three large-scale trends in body size evolution …

Recently, it has been shown with large data sets of extinct mammals that large-bodied
lineages experienced higher speciation and extinction rates; with extant mammals, it has …

Body size variation across the Metazoa is immense, encompassing 17 orders of magnitude
in biovolume. Factors driving this extreme diversification in size and the consequences of …

Is gradual microevolutionary change within species simultaneously the source of
macroevolutionary differentiation between species? Since its first publication, Darwin's …

Macroecology was developed as a big picture statistical approach to the study of ecology
and evolution. By focusing on broadly occurring patterns and processes operating at large …