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Scaling and foraging behaviour drive the evolution of humeral shape in hummingbirds.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 29 Apr 2026

Ríos-Orjuela Juan Camilo, Cadena Carlos Daniel, Rico-Guevara Alejandro, Berberi Ilias, Miner Lauren, Dakin Roslyn

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Understanding how locomotion-related skeletal elements evolve under biomechanical and ecological constraints is central to animal evolutionary biology. In hummingbirds (Trochilidae), the humerus plays a key role in force transmission during hovering and flapping flight, yet the drivers of its shape evolution have not been examined. We combined geometric morphometrics with phylogenetic comparative analyses to...

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PMID: 42049221
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2026.0275

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