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Evolution; international journal of organic evolution.
Publisher:
Society for the Study of Evolution. Oxford : Oxford University Press (2023)
Frequency: Monthly, 2001-
Country: United States
Language: English
Author(s):
Society for the Study of Evolution.
Start Year:1947 -
ISSN:
0014-3820 (Print)
1558-5646 (Electronic)
0014-3820 (Linking)
1558-5646 (Electronic)
0014-3820 (Linking)
Impact Factor
3.3
| NLM ID: | 0373224 |
| (DNLM): | E17700000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 01568544 |
| Coden: | EVOLAO |
| LCCN: | 51004882 |
| Classification: | W1 EV391 |
Constraints on Mammalian forelimb development: insights from developmental disparity. Tetrapod limb development has been studied extensively for decades, yet the strength and role of developmental constraints in this process remains unresolved. Mammals exhibit a particularly wide array of limb morphologies associated with various locomotion modes and behaviors, providing a useful system for identifying periods of developmental constraint and conserved developmental mechanisms or morphologies. In this study, landmark-based geometric morphometrics are used to investigate levels and patterns of morphological diversity (disparity) among the developing forelimbs of four mammals with...
The impact of regional climate on the evolution of mammals: a case study using fossil horses. One of the classic examples of faunal turnover in the fossil record is the Miocene transition from faunas dominated by anchitheriine horses with low-crowned molar teeth to faunas with hipparionine horses characterized by high-crowned teeth. The spread of hipparionine horses is associated with increased seasonality and the expansion of open habitats. It is generally accepted that anchitheriine horses did not display an evolutionary increase in tooth crown height prior to their extinction. Nevertheless, to test whether anchitheriines showed any changes interpretable as adaptation to local condit...
Stabilizing Selection and the Comparative Analysis of Adaptation. Comparative studies tend to differ from optimality and functionality studies in how they treat adaptation. While the comparative approach focuses on the origin and change of traits, optimality studies assume that adaptations are maintained at an optimum by stabilizing selection. This paper presents a model of adaptive evolution on a macroevolutionary time scale that includes the maintenance of traits at adaptive optima by stabilizing selection as the dominant evolutionary force. Interspecific variation is treated as variation in the position of adaptive optima. The model illustrates how phylog...
