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Testing for Depéret's Rule (Body Size Increase) in Mammals using Combined Extinct and Extant Data

Whether or not evolutionary lineages in general show a tendency to increase in body size has often been discussed. This tendency has been dubbed “Cope's rule” but because Cope never hypothesized it, we suggest renaming it after Depéret, who formulated it clearly in 1907. Depéret's rule has...

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Autores principales: Bokma, Folmer, Godinot, Marc, Maridet, Olivier, Ladevèze, Sandrine, Costeur, Loïc, Solé, Floréal, Gheerbrant, Emmanuel, Peigné, Stéphane, Jacques, Florian, Laurin, Michel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4678255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26508768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syv075