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