The evolution of brains from early mammals to humans

JH Kaas - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The large size and complex organization of the human brain makes it unique among primate
brains. In particular, the neocortex constitutes about 80% of the brain, and this cortex is …

Historical biogeography of the I sthmus of P anama

EG Leigh, A O'Dea, GJ Vermeij - Biological Reviews, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
About 3 million years ago (Ma), the I sthmus of P anama joined the A mericas, forming a land
bridge over which inhabitants of each A merica invaded the other—the G reat A merican B …

Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

ED Jarvis, S Mirarab, AJ Aberer, B Li, P Houde, C Li… - Science, 2014 - science.org
To better determine the history of modern birds, we performed a genome-scale phylogenetic
analysis of 48 species representing all orders of Neoaves using phylogenomic methods …

Incomplete lineage sorting and phenotypic evolution in marsupials

S Feng, M Bai, I Rivas-González, C Li, S Liu, Y Tong… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) makes ancestral genetic polymorphisms persist during
rapid speciation events, inducing incongruences between gene trees and species trees. ILS …

Morphology, molecules and the phylogeny of Characidae (Teleostei, Characiformes)

JM Mirande - Cladistics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This is the most comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the Characidae to date and the first
large‐scale hypothesis of the family, combining myriad morphological data with molecular …

Phylogenomic datasets provide both precision and accuracy in estimating the timescale of placental mammal phylogeny

M dos Reis, J Inoue, M Hasegawa… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The fossil record suggests a rapid radiation of placental mammals following the Cretaceous–
Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction 65 million years ago (Ma); nevertheless, molecular time …

The evolution of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

MR Stammnitz, K Gori, YM Kwon, E Harry, FJ Martin… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Tasmanian devils have spawned two transmissible cancer lineages, named devil facial
tumor 1 (DFT1) and devil facial tumor 2 (DFT2). We investigated the genetic diversity and …

The inflammation paradox in the evolution of mammalian pregnancy: turning a foe into a friend

AR Chavan, OW Griffith, GP Wagner - Current opinion in genetics & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Inflammation plays a pivotal role in human pregnancy during implantation and
parturition.•Eutherian implantation evolved from an ancestral inflammatory reaction to the …

Adaptive radiation versus 'radiation'and 'explosive diversification': why conceptual distinctions are fundamental to understanding evolution

TJ Givnish - New Phytologist, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptive radiation is the rise of a diversity of ecological roles and role‐specific adaptations
within a lineage. Recently, some researchers have begun to use 'adaptive radiation'or …

Molecular phylogeny, biogeography, and habitat preference evolution of marsupials

KJ Mitchell, RC Pratt, LN Watson… - Molecular biology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Marsupials exhibit great diversity in ecology and morphology. However, compared with their
sister group, the placental mammals, our understanding of many aspects of marsupial …