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The rise of ocean giants: maximum body size in Cenozoic marine mammals as an indicator for productivity in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

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The macroevolutionary relationship between diet and body mass across mammals

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No substitute for real data: A cautionary note on the use of phylogenies from birth-death polytomy resolvers for downstream comparative analyses

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Simple versus complex models of trait evolution and stasis as a response to environmental change

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Examining predator-prey body size, trophic level and body mass across marine and terrestrial mammals

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Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: eco-evolutionary processes and abiotic forcing

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Competition and constraint drove Cope's rule in the evolution of giant flying reptiles

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Body Size and Extinction Risk in Terrestrial Mammals Above the Species Level

(2013) Susumu Tomiya   AMERICAN NATURALIST

THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF CETACEAN BRAIN AND BODY SIZE

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INCREASED ENERGY PROMOTES SIZE-BASED NICHE AVAILABILITY IN MARINE MOLLUSKS

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MODELING STABILIZING SELECTION: EXPANDING THE ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK MODEL OF ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION

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Dimensionality of consumer search space drives trophic interaction strengths

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Metabolic Expenditures of Lunge Feeding Rorquals Across Scale: Implications for the Evolution of Filter Feeding and the Limits to Maximum Body Size

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How big should a mammal be? A macroecological look at mammalian body size over space and time

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A simple polytomy resolver for dated phylogenies

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Mechanics, hydrodynamics and energetics of blue whale lunge feeding: efficiency dependence on krill density

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Estimating body size of fossil sirenians

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The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals

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PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

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Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics

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EVOLUTION TOWARD A NEW ADAPTIVE OPTIMUM: PHENOTYPIC EVOLUTION IN A FOSSIL STICKLEBACK LINEAGE

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Giant claw reveals the largest ever arthropod

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