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Resurrection of the island rule – human-driven extinctions have obscured a basic evolutionary pattern

2015-08-27

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Islands are or have been occupied by unusual species, such as dwarf proboscideans and giant rodents. The discussion of the classical but controversial “island rule,” which states that mammalian body sizes converge on intermediate sizes on islands, has been stimulated by these unusual species. In this paper, we use an unprecedented global data set of the distributions and the body sizes of mammals and a novel analy...

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Literature Corpus work: bc40b804-9652-5e92-abed-ee493f173bea
DOI: 10.1101/025486

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