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Diversity versus disparity and the radiation of modern cetaceans.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Oct 2010
Slater Graham J, Price Samantha A, Santini Francesco, Alfaro Michael E
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Modern whales are frequently described as an adaptive radiation spurred by either the evolution of various key innovations (such as baleen or echolocation) or ecological opportunity following the demise of archaic whales. Recent analyses of diversification rate shifts on molecular phylogenies rai...
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