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Animal evolution and atmospheric pO(2): is there a link between gradual animal adaptation to terrain elevation due to Ural orogeny and survival of subsequent hypoxic periods?

Considering evolution of terrestrial animals as something happening only on flat continental plains seems wrong. Many mountains have arisen and disappeared over the geologic time scale, so in all periods some areas of high altitude existed, with reduced oxygen pressure (pO(2)) and increased aridity....

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Autor principal: Kurbel, Sven
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4223737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25335870
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4682-11-47