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Multiple routes to mammalian diversity

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  • Chris Venditti

    (University of Hull)

  • Andrew Meade

    (School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading)

  • Mark Pagel

    (School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading
    Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road)

Abstract

The roots of mammalian diversity The textbook view of mammalian evolution is one of an adaptive radiation, in which all the major forms arose to fill the available ecological niches in an explosive burst beginning around 90 million years ago, followed by much slower adaptive change leading up to the present. In a statistical study, Mark Pagel and colleagues track the evolutionary trends in body size for a complete phylogeny of the Mammalia and find no evidence for classic adaptive radiations at any point in history. Rates of speciation and morphological evolution are decoupled and there is no early evolutionary burst. Instead, body size evolution occurs in sporadic bursts across the phylogenetic tree.

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  • Chris Venditti & Andrew Meade & Mark Pagel, 2011. "Multiple routes to mammalian diversity," Nature, Nature, vol. 479(7373), pages 393-396, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:479:y:2011:i:7373:d:10.1038_nature10516
    DOI: 10.1038/nature10516
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