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- Felisa A. Smith
- Department of Biology, MSC03 2020, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
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- Alison G. Boyer
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, Box 208106, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
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- James H. Brown
- Department of Biology, MSC03 2020, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
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- Daniel P. Costa
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
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- Tamar Dayan
- Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
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- S. K. Morgan Ernest
- Department of Biology and Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA.
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- Alistair R. Evans
- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia.
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- Mikael Fortelius
- Department of Geosciences and Geography, Institute of Biotechnology, Post Office Box 64, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
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- John L. Gittleman
- Odum School of Ecology, 140 East Green Street, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
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- Marcus J. Hamilton
- Department of Biology, MSC03 2020, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
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- Larisa E. Harding
- Landscape Ecology, Tvistevägen 48, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umea University, Umea, Sweden SE-90187.
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- Kari Lintulaakso
- Department of Geosciences and Geography, Institute of Biotechnology, Post Office Box 64, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
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- S. Kathleen Lyons
- Smithsonian Institution, Post Office Box 37012, MRC 121, Washington, DC 20013–7012, USA.
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- Christy McCain
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CU Natural History Museum, Campus Box 265, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309–0265, USA.
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- Jordan G. Okie
- Department of Biology, MSC03 2020, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
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- Juha J. Saarinen
- Department of Geosciences and Geography, Institute of Biotechnology, Post Office Box 64, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
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- Richard M. Sibly
- School of Biological Sciences, Harborne Building, University of Reading, Reading, UK.
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- Patrick R. Stephens
- Odum School of Ecology, 140 East Green Street, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
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- Jessica Theodor
- Department of Biological Sciences, 2500 University Drive North West, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.
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- Mark D. Uhen
- Department of Biological Sciences, 2500 University Drive North West, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.
説明
<jats:title>How Mammals Grew in Size</jats:title> <jats:p> Mammals diversified greatly after the end-Cretaceous extinction, which eliminated the dominant land animals (dinosaurs). <jats:bold> Smith <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" page="1216" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="330" xlink:href="10.1126/science.1194830">1216</jats:related-article> ) 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. </jats:p>
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- Science
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Science 330 (6008), 1216-1219, 2010-11-26
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)