The naming of Australopithecus africanus in 1925, based on the Taung Child, heralded a
new era in human evolutionary studies and turned the attention of the then Eurasian-centric …

Marine bivalves are important components of ecosystems and exploited by humans for food
across the world, but the intrinsic vulnerability of exploited bivalve species to global changes …

Traditional bulk stable isotope (δ18O and δ13C) and clumped isotope (Δ47) records from
bivalve shells provide invaluable histories of Earth's local and global climate change …

Evolutionary adaptation to novel, specialized modes of life is often associated with a close
mapping of form to the new function, resulting in narrow morphological disparity. For bivalve …

By comparing detrended estimates of diversity (taxonomic richness) and rates of origination,
extinction, and net diversification, I show that at the global scale over the course of the …

Background Discoveries of new species often depend on one or a few specimens, leading
to delays as researchers wait for additional context, sometimes for decades. There is …

Mitonuclear coevolution is common in eukaryotes, but bivalve lineages that have doubly
uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mitochondria may be an interesting example. In this system …

Cyrenoidea is a superfamily of bivalves (Bivalvia: Imparidentia) currently comprising three
families (Cyrenidae, Cyrenoididae and Glauconomidae). It is widely distributed in marine …

Side-resting (pleurothetic) lifestyles evolved independently many times across the Bivalvia
in free-lying, byssally attached and cementing lineages. Within some species individuals lie …

Modular evolution, the relatively independent evolution of body parts, may promote high
morphological disparity in a clade. Conversely, integrated evolution via stronger covariation …