• DOI:10.1038/nature05634
Corpus ID: 4314965

The delayed rise of present-day mammals

@article{BinindaEmonds2007TheDR,
  title={The delayed rise of present-day mammals},
  author={O. Bininda-Emonds and M. Cardillo and K. Jones and R. Macphee and R. Beck and Richard Grenyer and S. Price and R. Vos and J. L. Gittleman and A. Purvis},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2007},
  volume={446},
  pages={507-512}
}

• O. Bininda-Emonds, M. Cardillo, +7 authors A. Purvis
• Published 2007
• Biology, Medicine
• Nature

Did the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, by eliminating non-avian dinosaurs and most of the existing fauna, trigger the evolutionary radiation of present-day mammals? Here we construct, date and analyse a species-level phylogeny of nearly all extant Mammalia to bring a new perspective to this question. Our analyses of how extant lineages accumulated through time show that net per-lineage diversification rates barely changed across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. Instead, these rates… Expand