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The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals
Abstract
How Mammals Grew in Size: Mammals diversified greatly after the end-Cretaceous extinction, which eliminated the dominant land animals (dinosaurs). Smith et al. (p. 1216 ) examined how the maximum size of mammals increased during their radiation in each continent. Overall, mammal size increased rapidly, then leveled off after about 25 million years. This pattern holds true on most of the continents—even though data are sparse for South America—and implies that mammals grew to fill available niches before other environmental and biological limits took hold.
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- Smith, F. A., Boyer, A. G., Brown, J. H., Costa, D. P., Dayan, T., Ernest, S. K. M., Evans, A. R., Fortelius, M., Gittleman, J. L., Hamilton, M. J., Harding, L. E., Lintulaakso, K., Lyons, S. K., McCain, C., Okie, J. G., Saarinen, J. J., Sibly, R. M., Stephens, P. R., Theodor, J., & Uhen, M. D.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2010-11-26
- Volume
- 330
- Issue
- 6008
- Pages
- 1216-1219
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2078822756
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- 312
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 11.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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