Biomechanical Consequences of Rapid Evolution in the Polar Bear Lineage

The polar bear is the only living ursid with a fully carnivorous diet. Despite a number of well-documented craniodental adaptations for a diet of seal flesh and blubber, molecular and paleontological data indicate that this morphologically distinct species evolved less than a million years ago from...

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Autores principales: Slater, Graham J., Figueirido, Borja, Louis, Leeann, Yang, Paul, Van Valkenburgh, Blaire
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2974639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21079768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013870

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2974639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21079768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013870

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