Bursts in skull evolution weakened with time

The skull shapes of mammals diversified more rapidly early in their history Evolutionary biologists generally agree that placental mammals began as small-sized animals that ate insects, and later evolved to become more varied in size and morphology. Today, the morphologies of placental mammals are i...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2022-10, Vol.378 (6618), p.355-356
Hauptverfasser:	Santana, Sharlene E., Grossnickle, David M.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Bumblebees Cretaceous Divergence Environmental changes Eocene Evolution Insects Mammals Mass extinctions Morphology Paleocene Paleogene Skull Species extinction
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