Limitations of a morphological criterion of adaptive inference in the fossil record

ABSTRACT Experimental analyses directly inform how an anatomical feature or complex functions during an organism's lifetime, which serves to increase the efficacy of comparative studies of living and fossil taxa. In the mammalian skull, food material properties and feeding behaviour have a pron...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 2016-11, Vol.91 (4), p.883-898
Hauptverfasser:	Ravosa, Matthew J., Menegaz, Rachel A., Scott, Jeremiah E., Daegling, David J., McAbee, Kevin R.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adaptation, Physiological - physiology Animals Biological Evolution connective tissues Diet dietary properties Feeding Behavior - physiology Fossils functional morphology Genotype & phenotype mammals Mammals - anatomy & histology Mammals - classification masticatory loading Morphology musculoskeletal system ontogeny Paleontology plasticity Rabbits skull Skull - anatomy & histology
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