Physical principles and laws determine the set of possible organismal phenotypes.
Constraints arising from development, the environment, and evolutionary history then yield …

Jaw muscles are key components of the head and critical to testing hypotheses of soft‐tissue
homology, skull function, and evolution. Dinosaurs evolved an extraordinary diversity of …

The human trophic level (HTL) during the Pleistocene and its degree of variability serve,
explicitly or tacitly, as the basis of many explanations for human evolution, behavior, and …

Of the forty mammal species known to have vanished in the world in the last 200 years,
almost half have been Australian. Our continent has the worst record of mammal extinctions …

The materials mechanics of the controlled separation of a body into two or more parts–
cutting–using a blade or tool or other mechanical implement is a ubiquitous process in most …

The Carnivora spans the largest ecological and body size diversity of any mammalian order,
making it an ideal basis for studies of evolutionary ecology and functional morphology. For …

By the end of the Eocene (37 Ma), species of the genus Hesperocyon began to appear. A
single species, H. gregarius, has been found in the badlands of the western Great Plains …

Archaeologists use experimentally derived tooth mark frequencies, locations, and size data
to infer (a) the extent of carnivore involvement in the formation and modification of faunal …

Metriorhynchoid crocodylians represent the pinnacle of marine specialization within
Archosauria. Not only were they a major component of the Middle Jurassic–Early …

Rodents are important components of nearly every terrestrial ecosystem and display
considerable ecological diversity. Nevertheless, a lack of data on the ecomorphology of …