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Correlated evolution and dietary change in fossil stickleback.

Science (New York, N.Y.) - 28 Sept 2007

Purnell Mark A, Bell Michael A, Baines David C, Hart Paul J B, Travis Matthew P

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The importance of trophic ecology in adaptation and evolution is well known, yet direct evidence that feeding controls microevolution over extended evolutionary time scales, available only from the fossil record, is conspicuously lacking. Through quantitative analysis of tooth microwear, we show that rapid evolutionary change in Miocene stickleback was associated with shifts in feeding, providing direct evidence...

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PMID: 17901325
DOI: 10.1126/science.1147337

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