Social living goes hand in hand with communication, but the details of this relationship are
rarely simple. Complex communication may be described by attributes as diverse as a …

The evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals was one of the most important events in
the evolution of the vertebrates. Past tests of hypotheses on the evolution of endothermy in …

A Guide to the Mammals of China is an outgrowth of the desire of the Biodiversity Working
Group (BWG) of the China Council for International Cooperation in Environment and …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 677–689 Abstract Although some organisms have moved to
higher elevations and latitudes in response to recent climate change, there is little …

Background Development of phylogenetic methods that do not rely on fossils for the study of
evolutionary processes through time have revolutionized the field of evolutionary biology …

Squirrels of the World, written by scientists with more than 100 years of collective experience
studying these popular mammals, is the first comprehensive examination of all 285 species …

Humans stand out among the apes by having both an extremely large brain and a relatively
high reproductive output, which has been proposed to be a consequence of cooperative …

The origin, evolution, and functional relevance of genomic variations in GC content are a
long-debated topic, especially in mammals. Most of the existing literature, however, has …

The island rule is a hypothesis whereby small mammals evolve larger size on islands while
large insular mammals dwarf. The rule is believed to emanate from small mammals growing …

The substantial body of research on Holarctic ground squirrels amassed over the past
century documents considerable variability in morphological, cytogenetic, ecological, and …