[图书][B] Growth: from microorganisms to megacities

V Smil - 2019 - books.google.com
A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the
trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit …

Integrating paleontological and phylogenetic approaches to macroevolution

G Hunt, G Slater - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
With proliferation of molecular phylogenies and advances in statistical modeling,
phylogeneticists can now address macroevolutionary questions that had traditionally been …

Using phylogenetic information and the comparative method to evaluate hypotheses in macroecology

CE Hernandez, E Rodríguez‐Serrano… - Methods in Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
It is widely recognized that macroecological patterns are not independent of the evolution of
the lineages involved in generating these patterns. While many researchers have begun to …

Disruption of the head direction cell network impairs the parahippocampal grid cell signal

SS Winter, BJ Clark, JS Taube - Science, 2015 - science.org
Navigation depends on multiple neural systems that encode the moment-to-moment
changes in an animal's direction and location in space. These include head direction (HD) …

Cope's rule in the evolution of marine animals

NA Heim, ML Knope, EK Schaal, SC Wang, JL Payne - Science, 2015 - science.org
Cope's rule proposes that animal lineages evolve toward larger body size over time. To test
this hypothesis across all marine animals, we compiled a data set of body sizes for 17,208 …

Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism

M Kuntner, CA Hamilton, RC Cheng… - Systematic …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Instances of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) provide the context for rigorous tests of biological
rules of size evolution, such as Cope's rule (phyletic size increase), Rensch's rule (allometric …

Adaptive evolution toward larger size in mammals

J Baker, A Meade, M Pagel… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

Rise of dinosaurs reveals major body-size transitions are driven by passive processes of trait evolution

RB Sookias, RJ Butler… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A major macroevolutionary question concerns how long-term patterns of body-size evolution
are underpinned by smaller scale processes along lineages. One outstanding long-term …

[图书][B] Mesozoic mammals from South America and their forerunners

GW Rougier, AG Martinelli, AM Forasiepi - 2021 - Springer
As evolutionary biologists, we live in exciting and promising times. The material basis of our
science is growing at an unprecedented rate; fossils preserving structures we thought …

Ecological specialization in fossil mammals explains Cope's rule

P Raia, F Carotenuto, F Passaro… - The American …, 2012 - journals.uchicago.edu
Cope's rule is the trend toward increasing body size in a lineage over geological time. The
rule has been explained either as passive diffusion away from a small initial body size or as …