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paleobiology in the mediterranean

, 2020
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Dominici S., Scarponi D.
openaire   +3 more sources

Paleobiological Perspectives on the Early Upper Paleolithic Human Transition in the Northwestern Old World

Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2001
The emerging consensus that the emergence of modern humans in the northwestern Old World involved temporally and geographically varying degrees of admixture between Neandertals and early modern humans within the early Upper Paleolithic provides the ...
Erik Trinkaus
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating the evolutionary rates in mosasauroids and plesiosaurs: discussion of niche occupation in Late Cretaceous seas [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
Observations of temporal overlap of niche occupation among Late Cretaceous marine amniotes suggest that the rise and diversification of mosasauroid squamates might have been influenced by competition with or disappearance of some plesiosaur taxa.
Daniel Madzia, Andrea Cau
doaj   +2 more sources

Biological implications of high-energy cosmic ray induced muon flux in the extragalactic shock model

, 2011
A ~ 62 My periodicity in fossil biodiversity has been observed in independent studies of paleontology databases over ~0.5Gy. The period and phase of this biodiversity cycle coincides with the oscillation of our solar system normal to the galactic disk ...
Adrian L. Melott, Alpen, Arens, Atri, Atri, Bailer-Jones, Chen, Cornette, Cucinotta, Dimitra Atri, Ferrari, Feulner, Gies, Groom, Hebbeker, Karam, Kirkby, Lieberman, McNulty, Medvedev, Melott, Melott, Melott, Melott, Melott, O'Brien, Pelliccioni, Rohde, Simonsen, Usoskin   +29 more
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Hierarchy Theory of Evolution and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Some Epistemic Bridges, Some Conceptual Rifts [PDF]

, 2018
Contemporary evolutionary biology comprises a plural landscape of multiple co-existent conceptual frameworks and strenuous voices that disagree on the nature and scope of evolutionary theory.
A Etxeberria, A Fuentes, A Parravicini, A Vianello, A Wagner, AC Love, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, AV Badyaev, B Bocxlaer Van, BS Lieberman, BS Lieberman, D Noble, D Sepkoski, D Sloan-Wilson, DD Turner, DJ Depew, DJ Futuyma, DJ Nicholson, DL Hull, DM Walsh, DR Piperno, DT Campbell, E Danchin, E Jablonka, E Jablonka, E Jablonka, E Mayr, E Mayr, E Serrelli, E Szathmáry, EI Svensson, ES Vrba, ES Vrba, ES Vrba, F Suman, F Vergara-Silva, FJ Odling-Smee, FJ Odling-Smee, Francisco Vergara-Silva, GB Müller, GB Müller, GG Simpson, GJ Cooper, GP Wagner, GP Wagner, I Tëmkin, I Tëmkin, I Tëmkin, J Beatty, J Griesemer, J Griesemer, J Odling-Smee, J Odling-Smee, JJ Welch, JW Pepper, K Laland, K Laland, K Stotz, KN Laland, KN Laland, KN Laland, KN Laland, M Bertolaso, M Blute, M Lynch, M Martínez, M Nei, M Pavličev, M Pigliucci, M Pigliucci, MD Laubichler, MJ Denton, MW Kirschner, N Eldredge, N Eldredge, N Eldredge, N Eldredge, N Eldredge, N Eldredge, N Eldredge, N Eldredge, P Alberch, P Bateson, P Godfrey-Smith, PJ Bowler, R Amundson, R Amundson, R Riedl, R Sansom, RG Delisle, RG Winther, S Caianiello, S Okasha, S Okasha, S Oyama, S Sultan, SF Gilbert, SJ Gould, SJ Gould, T Ingold, T Ingold, T Pievani, T Pievani, T Pievani, T Pievani, TA Grantham, TS Kemp, TS Kemp, U Dieckmann, W Miller III, W Miller III, WB Provine, WD Allmon, WE Reif   +113 more
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Climate and cultural evolution drove Holocene cropland change in the Huai River Valley, China

iScience
Summary: As an important way of maximizing land productivity by growing more than one crop type in the same field, mixed cropping has been an effective option for sustaining population growth under different climatic conditions since prehistoric period ...
Yanyan Yu, Haibin Wu, Wenchao Zhang, Nicole Boivin, Jie Yu, Juzhong Zhang, Xin Zhou, Wuhong Luo, Chenglong Deng, Junyi Ge, Zhengtang Guo   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hypercanines: Not just for sabertooths

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Hypercanines are here defined as hypertrophied caniniform teeth, that is, canine teeth that are elongated to serve specific functions in different clades of mammals and their synapsid ancestors. This article presents an overview of the occurrence of hypercanines, their growth, and their function across a broad range of clades.
Lars Werdelin
wiley   +1 more source

The fossil record of early tetrapods: worker effort and the end-Permian mass extinction [PDF]

, 2010
It is important to understand the quality of the fossil record of early tetrapods (Tetrapoda, minus Lissamphibia and Amniota) because of their key role in the transition of vertebrates from water to land, their dominance of terrestrial faunas for over ...
Bebber D.F., Benton M.J., Benton M.J., Benton M.J., Emma L. Bernard, Fara E., Fara E., Flessa K.W., Jaeger G.F., James E. Tarver, Marcello Ruta, Maxwell W.D., Michael J. Benton, Peters S.E., Raup D.M., Schoch R.R., Sepkoski J.J., Valentine J.W., Wickström L.M.   +18 more
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New evidence for the earliest ornithischian dinosaurs from Asia

iScience
Summary: The Early Jurassic ornithischian dinosaurs in Laurasia are dominated by armored dinosaurs, with other early ornithischian groups being rare. Here, a new taxon, Archaeocursor asiaticus gen. et sp.
Xi Yao, Qi Zhao, Tingcong Ren, Guangbiao Wei, Xing Xu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exposed weapons: A revised reconstruction of the facial anatomy and life appearance of the saber‐toothed cat Megantereon (Felidae, Machairodontinae)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Megantereon was a widespread saber‐toothed felid from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of the Old World and North America, but its rarity in the fossil record makes it complicated to restore its life appearance. Lack of complete specimens makes it necessary to combine information from fossils of different individuals to reconstruct their facial ...
Mauricio Antón, Gema Siliceo, Juan Francisco Pastor, Qigao Jiangzuo, Manuel J. Salesa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source