期刊
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
卷 46, 期 3, 页码 239-248出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-019-09477-7
关键词
Braincase; Evolutionary trend; Face; Mammals; Morphology; Prognathism
资金
- SYTHESYS [BE-TAF-2861, SE-TAF-4409, AT-TAF-4816, CZ-TAF-4817, HU-TAF-4818, DE-TAF-4819, FR-TAF-4820]
- Leverhulme Trust [F/00128/T]
It has been suggested that larger species of mammals tend to become long-faced when they diverge in size during an evolutionary radiation. However, whether this allometric pattern, reminiscent of ontogenetic changes in skull proportions, is indeed a rule has yet to be thoroughly tested. Using similar to 6000 adult specimens from 14 phylogenetically well separated and ecomorphologically distinctive lineages, 11 orders, and all superorders of the placentals, I tested each group for positive craniofacial allometry (CREA). The evidence supporting CREA is overwhelming, with virtually all analyses showing proportionally longer faces in bigger species. This corroborates previous studies in other groups, consolidates CREA as a pervasive morphological trend in placental evolution and opens important research avenues for connecting micro- and macro-evolution. If found in even more lineages of non-placental mammals, confirmed in birds, and possibly discovered in other tetrapods, CREA could become one of the most general rules of morphological evolution in land vertebrates.
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