Do large mammals evolve faster than small mammals or vice versa? Because the answer to
this question contributes to our understanding of how life-history affects long-term and large …

Survival probability is predicted to underlie the evolution of life histories along a slow–fast
continuum. Hibernation allows a diverse range of small mammals to exhibit seasonal …

The end‐Cretaceous mass extinction ranks among the most severe extinctions of all time;
however, patterns of extinction and recovery remain incompletely understood. In particular, it …

An ever larger proportion of Earth's biota is affected by the current accelerating
environmental change. The mismatches between organisms and their environments are …

Reconstructing evolutionary patterns and their underlying processes is a central goal in
biology. Yet many analyses of deep evolutionary histories assume that data from the fossil …

The notion that large body size confers some intrinsic advantage to biological species has
been debated for centuries. Using a phylogenetic statistical approach that allows the rate 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 …

Mammalian body mass strongly correlates with life history and population properties at the
scale of mouse to elephant. Large body size is thus often associated with elevated extinction …

We lack a comprehensive understanding of evolutionary pattern and process because short-
term and long-term data have rarely been combined into a single analytical framework. Here …

While it is commonly believed that animals live longer in zoos than in the wild, this
assumption has rarely been tested. We compared four survival metrics (longevity, baseline …