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The tempo and mode of evolution: body sizes of island mammals.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jul 2011
Raia Pasquale, Meiri Shai
Abstract excerpt
The tempo and mode of body size evolution on islands are believed to be well known. It is thought that body size evolves relatively quickly on islands toward the mammalian modal value, thus generating extreme cases of size evolution and the island rule. Here, we tested both theories in a phylogenetically explicit context, by using two different species-level mammalian phylogenetic hypotheses limited to sister...
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