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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |