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Canine Evolution in Sabretoothed Carnivores: Natural Selection or Sexual Selection?
The remarkable elongated upper canines of extinct sabretoothed carnivorous mammals have been the subject of considerable speculation on their adaptive function, but the absence of living analogues prevents any direct inference about their evolution. We analysed scaling relationships of the upper can...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3738559/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23951334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0072868 |