Over the past two decades, comparative biological analyses have undergone profound
changes with the incorporation of rigorous evolutionary perspectives and phylogenetic …

Species extinction is both a key process throughout the history of life and a pressing concern
in the conservation of present-day biodiversity. These two facets have largely been studied …

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Given that evolutionary divergence in mating signals leads to reproductive isolation in
numerous animal taxa, understanding what drives signal divergence is fundamental to our …

Incubating new ideas about avian reproduction/SJ Reynolds & DC Deeming--The fossil
record and evolution of avian egg nesting and incubation/DC Deeming--Nest construction …

Confirmatory path analysis is a statistical technique to build models of causal hypotheses
among variables and test if the data conform with the causal model. However, classical path …

The hippocampus is essential for the formation and retrieval of memories and is a crucial
neural structure sub-serving complex cognition. Adult hippocampal neurogenesis, the birth …

The island rule is a hypothesis whereby small mammals evolve larger size on islands while
large insular mammals dwarf. The rule is believed to emanate from small mammals growing …

Aim Our aim was to test whether extinction risk of frog species could be predicted from their
body size, fecundity or geographical range size. Because small geographical range size is a …

Evolutionary retention of duplicated genes encoding transcription-associated proteins
(TAPs, comprising transcription factors and other transcriptional regulators) has been …