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Palaeohistology reveals a slow pace of life for the dwarfed Sicilian elephant

The 1-m-tall dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon falconeri from the Pleistocene of Sicily (Italy) is an extreme example of insular dwarfism and epitomizes the Island Rule. Based on scaling of life-history (LH) traits with body mass, P. falconeri is widely considered to be ‘r-selected’ by truncation of the...

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Autores principales: Köhler, Meike, Herridge, Victoria, Nacarino-Meneses, Carmen, Fortuny, Josep, Moncunill-Solé, Blanca, Rosso, Antonietta, Sanfilippo, Rossana, Palombo, Maria Rita, Moyà-Solà, Salvador
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8613187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34819557
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02192-4