The concept of evolvability—the capacity of a population to produce and maintain
evolutionarily relevant variation—has become increasingly prominent in evolutionary …

Tooth classes are an innovation that has contributed to the evolutionary success of
mammals. However, our understanding of the mechanisms by which tooth classes …

Variation in tooth crown morphology plays a crucial role in species diagnoses, phylogenetic
inference, and the reconstruction of the evolutionary history of the primate clade. While a …

Simple Summary Over the last two decades of biological research, our understanding of
how genes determine dental development and variation has expanded greatly. Here, we …

Iterative segments such as teeth or limbs are a widespread characteristic of living
organisms. While their proportions may be governed by similar developmental rules in …

Serially homologous elements pose an identification problem in fragmentary records,
particularly those of vertebrate fossils. Examples include individual vertebrae in the vertebral …

Arrangement into patterns is a widespread feature of periodically repeated structures of
vertebrate bodies, including dentitions. Several recent studies connected patterning of body …

Tooth classes are a mammalian innovation that has contributed to the evolutionary success
of mammals. However, our understanding of how tooth classes have evolved and diversified …

The discovery of mechanistic rules that underlie phenotypic variation has been a
longstanding goal of evolutionary biology. Developmental processes offer a potential source …

El estudio de los patrones de variación morfológica dental (en tamaño y forma) y de los
procesos evolutivos y del desarrollo que los originan a escalas intra e inter-específica ha …