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Parental Care: The Key to Understanding Endothermy and Other Convergent Features in Birds and Mammals
Abstract
Birds and mammals share a number of features that are remarkably similar but that have evolved independently. One of these characters, endothermy, has been suggested to have played a cardinal role in avian and mammalian evolution. I hypothesize that it is parental care, rather than endothermy, that is the key to understanding the amazing convergence between mammals and birds. Endothermy may have arisen as a consequence of selection for parental care because endothermy enables a parent to control incubation temperature. The remarkable ability of many birds and mammals to sustain vigorous exercise may also have arisen as a consequence of selection for parental care because provisioning of offspring often requires sustained vigorous exercise. Because extensive parental care encompasses a wide range of behaviors, morphology, and physiology, it may be a key innovation that accounts for the majority of convergent avian and mammalian characters.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Farmer, C. G.
- Venue
- The American Naturalist
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2000-03
- Volume
- 155
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 326-334
- ISSN
- 0003-0147 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5323
- OpenAlex
- W2179335322
- Cited by
- 264
- References
- 69
- FWCI
- 6.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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