Ben Creisler
I hope people are safe and well.
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Recent abstracts books:
Free pdf:
XXIV Giornate della Paleontologia - Paleodays 2024 Abstract Book:
https://www.paleoitalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Paleodays-2024-Abstract-Book_DEF.pdf
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[Some fossil vertebrate items…]
Anatomy Connected 2024 Scientific Abstracts
The Anatomical Record 307(S1): S1-S201
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25522
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25522
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https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.25522
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Some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
Anja-Verena Behling, Lauren Welte, Luke Kelly and Michael J. Rainbow (2024)
Human in vivo midtarsal and subtalar joint kinematics during walking, running and hopping
Journal of The Royal Society Interface 21(214): 20240074
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2024.0074
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2024.0074
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsif.2024.0074
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Nathalie Ø. Brusgaard, Jildou Kooistra, Mans Schepers, Michael Dee, Daan Raemaekers & Canan Çakırlar (2024)
Early animal management in northern Europe: multi-proxy evidence from Swifterbant, the Netherlands
Antiquity 98(399): 654 - 671
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.58
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L. A. van Holstein, H. D. McKay, C. Pimiento & K. Koops (2024)
Multidimensional primate niche space sheds light on interspecific competition in primate evolution
Communications Biology 7: 647
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06324-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s42003-024-06324-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06324-0
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Buronius manfredschmidi gen. et sp. nov.
M. Böhme, D. R. Begun, A. C. Holmes, T. Lechner & G. Ferreira (2024)
Buronius manfredschmidi—A new small hominid from the early late Miocene of Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany).
PLoS ONE 19(6): e0301002
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301002
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0301002
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Roniel Freitas-Oliveira, Matheus S. Lima-Ribeiro & Levi Carina Terribile (2024)
No evidence for niche competition in the extinction of the South American saber-tooth species
npj Biodiversity 3: 11
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-024-00045-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44185-024-00045-7
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Manuel J. Salesa, Bárbara Hernández, Pilar Marín, Gema Siliceo, Irene Martínez, Mauricio Antón, María Isabel García-Real, Juan Francisco Pastor & Rosa Ana García-Fernández (2024)
New insights on the ecology and behavior of Machairodus aphanistus (Carnivora, Felidae, Machairodontinae) through the paleopathological study of the fossil sample from the Late Miocene (Vallesian, MN 10) of Cerro de los Batallones (Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain)
Journal of Mammalian Evolution 31: 21
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-024-09721-8
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-024-09721-8
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Eimear Byrne, Robert D. Johnston, David Kilroy & Sourav Bhattacharjee (2024)
An arch worth revisiting: A study on the feline humeral supracondylar foramen and its evolutionary significance
Biology Open bio.060420.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.060420
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Ellen Schulz-Kornas, Mirella H. Skiba and Thomas M. Kaiser (2024)
Prey size reflected in tooth wear: a comparison of two wolf populations from Sweden and Alaska
Interface Focus 14(3): 20230070
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2023.0070
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2023.0070
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsfs.2023.0070
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Afrophoca libyca (“phocid”) = Afromeryx zelteni (anthracothere)
Martin Pickford and Christian De Muizon (2024)
The affinities of Afrophoca libyca from basal Middle Miocene of Gebel Zelten, Libya
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69(2): 243-247
doi: https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01152.2024
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app011522024.html
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https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app69/app011522024.pdf
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Daniel Varajão de Latorre and Charles R Marshall (2024)
Evolutionary allometry of the canid baculum (Carnivora: Mammalia)
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, blae048,
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blae048
https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biolinnean/blae048/7686617
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Bramiscus micros gen. et sp. nov.
María Ríos, Sayyed Ghyour Abbas, Muhammad Akbar Khan, and Nikos Solounias (2024)
A new giraffid Bramiscus micros nov. gen. nov. sp. (Ruminantia, Giraffidae) from the Miocene of northern Pakistan.
Palaeontologia Electronica 27(2): a29
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1243
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5228-new-giraffid-genus
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Douglas R. Cavener, Monica L. Bond, Lan Wu-Cavener, George G. Lohay, Mia W. Cavener, Xiaoyi Hou, David L. Pearce & Derek E. Lee (2024)
Sexual dimorphisms in body proportions of Masai giraffes and the evolution of the giraffe’s neck
Mammalian Biology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-024-00424-4
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-food-sex-drove-evolution-giraffes.html
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Danielle Fraser, Natalia Rybczynski, Marisa Gilbert & Mary R. Dawson (2024)
Post-Eocene Rhinocerotid Dispersal via the North Atlantic
bioRxiv 2024.06.04.597351 (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.04.597351
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.04.597351v1
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Gustavo Macêdo do Carmo, Sueli de Souza Lima, Hermínio Ismael de Araújo-Júnior, Ralph Maturano Pinheiro, Diogo Jorge de Melo & Graziella Couto-Ribeiro (2024)
Checklist paleofaunístico da Formação Tremembé (Oligoceno da Bacia de Taubaté, Vale do Paraíba, Brasil)
Terrae Didatica 20(00): e024013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20396/td.v20i00.8674375
https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/td/article/view/8674375/33980
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Fluvioviridavis nazensis sp. nov.
Fluvioviridavis michaeldanielsi sp. nov.
Gerald Mayr & Andrew C. Kitchener (2024)
The non-apodiform Strisores (potoos, nightjars and allied birds) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-024-00610-9
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-024-00610-9
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Phoebe L. McInerney, Jacob C. Blokland &Trevor H. Worthy (2024)
Skull morphology of the enigmatic Genyornis newtoni Stirling and Zeitz, 1896 (Aves, Dromornithidae), with implications for functional morphology, ecology, and evolution in the context of Galloanserae
Historical Biology 35(6): 1093-1165
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2308212
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2308212
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Elif Duran, Juan Olvido Perea-García, Diede Piepenbrock, Celine Veefkind, Mariska E. Kret & Jorg J. M. Massen (2024)
Preliminary evidence that eye appearance in parrots (Psittaciformes) co-varies with latitude and altitude
Scientific Reports 14: 12859
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-63599-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-63599-3
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-63599-3.pdf
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Prateek Dey, Swapna Devi Ray, Venkata Hanumat Sastry Kochiganti, Budhan S. Pukazhenthi, Klaus-Peter Koepfli & Ram Pratap Singh (2024)
Mitogenomic Insights into the Evolution, Divergence Time, and Ancestral Ranges of Coturnix Quails
Genes 15(6): 742
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/genes15060742
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/15/6/742
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Jack Lovegrove, Paul Upchurch & Paul M. Barrett (2024)
Untangling the tree or unravelling the consensus? Recent developments in the quest to resolve the broad-scale relationships within Dinosauria
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 22(1): 2345333
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2024.2345333
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2024.2345333
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14772019.2024.2345333
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P. Mocho, A. Pérez-García & V.A. Codrea (2024)
New sauropod appendicular remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Romania: accessing the morphological variability.
Cretaceous Research 105936
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105936
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667124001095
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Jean-David MOREAU, Romain VULLO, Elsie BICHR, Jérôme THOMAS, Georges GAND, Cyril GAGNAISON, Pascal BARRIER & Didier NÉRAUDEAU (2024)
Crocodylomorph and dinosaur tracks from the lowermost Jurassic of Le Veillon (western France): ichnotaxonomic revision of the type material (Lapparent collection).
Geodiversitas 46(8): 343-366
doi: https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2024v46a8
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/46/8
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https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/g2024v46a8.pdf
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William G. Parker and Atrayee Haldar (2024)
A lateral osteoderm from Kryphioparma caerula (Pseudosuchia: Aetosauria) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) Chinle Formation of Arizona
Lithodendron 1: 31-44
doi: https://doi.org/10.69575/GUWJ4108
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Adam D. Marsh, Christian A. Sidor and Elliot Armour Smith (2024)
The allokotosaur (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) assemblage from a multitaxic bonebed in the Sonsela Member (Jim Camp Wash Beds, Chinle Formation) at Petrified Forest National Park, U.S.A.
Lithodendron 1: 95-118
doi: https://doi.org/10.69575/FAIY7658
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Jendrian Riedel, Katrin Eisele, Mariam Gabelaia, Timothy E. Higham, Joseph Wu, Quyen Hanh Do, Truong Quang Nguyen, Camila G. Meneses, Rafe M. Brown, Thomas Ziegler, L. Lee Grismer, Anthony P. Russell, Dennis Rödder (2024)
Ecologically-related variation of digit morphology in Cyrtodactylus (Gekkota, Squamata) reveals repeated origins of incipient adhesive toepads
Functional Ecology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14597
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2435.14597
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https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2435.14597
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Jacob G. Quinn, Evangelos R. Matheau-Raven, David I. Whiteside, John E. A. Marshall, Deborah J. Hutchinson & Michael J. Benton (2024)
The relationships and paleoecology of Pachystropheus rhaeticus, an enigmatic latest Triassic marine reptile (Diapsida: Thalattosauria)
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: e2350408
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2350408
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2350408
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02724634.2024.2350408
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Adán Pérez-García, Andrea Guerrero, Santiago Martín de Jesús, and Francisco Ortega (2024)
Shell anatomy and intraspecific variability of the Spanish Lutetian podocnemidid turtle Neochelys zamorensis.
Palaeontologia Electronica 27(2): a28
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1388
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024/5220-shell-of-neochelys-zamorensis
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Michael Wuttke, Markus J. Poschmann, Torsten Wappler, Johannes M. Bouchal, Christian Geier, Silvia Ulrich & Friðgeir Grímsson (2024)
Pollen-feeding in a giant pelobatid tadpole from the late Oligocene of Enspel, Germany
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-024-00603-8
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12549-024-00603-8
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Luke J. P. Rose, Andrew B. Heckert, Bruce Lauer and Rene Lauer (2024)
Description of a new Upper Triassic fossil lungfish (Sarcopterygii:Dipnoi) locality from the Garita Creek Formation, East-Central New Mexico, with a reevaluation of Late Triassic lungfish diversity in the American Southwest
Lithodendron 1: 145-170
doi: https://doi.org/10.69575/HDWG3456
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Phillip C. Sternes, Lars Schmitz & Timothy E. Higham (2024)
The rise of pelagic sharks and adaptive evolution of pectoral fin morphology during the Cretaceous
Current Biology (advance online publication)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.05.016
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00614-6
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Simpsonigobius nerimanae gen. et sp. nov.
Moritz Dirnberger, Elena Bauer & Bettina Reichenbacher (2024)
A new freshwater gobioid from the Lower Miocene of Turkey in a significantly amended total evidence phylogenetic framework
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 22(10): 2340498
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2024.2340498
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2024.2340498
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http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org.pub:5000841F-1836-43D8-BE75-4C090A478566
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Chase D. Brownstein, Katerina L. Zapfe, Spencer Lott, Richard Harrington, Ava Ghezelayagh, Alex Dornburg & Thomas J. Near (2024)
Synergistic innovations enabled the radiation of anglerfishes in the deep open ocean
Current Biology 34(11): 2541-2550.e4
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.066
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00576-1
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982224005761
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Fabienne Ziadi-Künzli, Ken Maeda, Pavel Puchenkov & Mahesh M. Bandi (2024)
Anatomical insights into fish terrestrial locomotion: A study of barred mudskipper (Periophthalmus argentilineatus) fins based on μCT 3D reconstructions
Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14071
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14071
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“Conger” biaculeatus sp. nov., Bauzaia gibbosa sp. nov., Ampheristus brevicaudatus sp. nov., Symmetrosulcus virginicus sp. nov., Neobythites longesulcatus sp. nov., “Neobythites” pamunkeyensis sp. nov., “Neobythites” stringeri sp. nov., Waitakia dorsogibbosa sp. nov., “Haemulon” ypresiensis sp. nov.
Chien-Hsiang LIN, Etienne STEURBAUT & Dirk NOLF (2024)
Early Eocene fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA.
European Journal of Taxonomy 935: 203–240
doi: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.935.2557
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/european-journal-taxonomy/935/203
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Carla San Román, Hugo Martín-Abad & Jesús Marugán-Lobón (2024)
A geometric morphometric protocol to correct postmortem body arching in fossil fishes
PeerJ 12:e17436
doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17436
https://peerj.com/articles/17436/
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Jens Højgaard Jensen, Jeppe C. Dyre & Tina Hecksher (2024)
Universal wing- and fin-beat frequency scaling.
PLoS ONE 19(6): e0303834
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303834
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0303834
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Julia Dong Hwa Oh, Lu Freem, Dillan D. Z. Saunders, Lynn McTeir, Hazel Gilhooley, Melany Jackson, James D. Glover, Jonathan Smith, Jeffrey J. Schoenebeck, Laura A. Lettice, Helen M. Sang & Megan G. Davey (2024)
Insights into digit evolution from a fate map study of the forearm using Chameleon, a new transgenic chicken line
Development dev.202340.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.202340
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Christian Klug, Günter Schweigert, René Hoffmann, Dirk Fuchs, Alexander Pohle, Robert Weis & Kenneth De Baets (2024)
Anatomy and size of Megateuthis, the largest belemnite
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 143: 23
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-024-00320-x
https://sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-024-00320-x
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Weijia Huang and Xin Wang (2024)
Flower Buds Confirmed in the Early Cretaceous of China
Biology 13(6): 413
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/biology13060413
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/13/6/413
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Ryan T. Tucker, James L. Crowley, Michael T. Mohr, Ray K. Renaut, Peter J. Makovicky & Lindsay E. Zanno (2023)
Exceptional age constraint on a fossiliferous sedimentary succession preceding the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum
Geology 51(10): 962–967
https://doi.org/10.1130/G51278.1
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Sandra Kirtland Turner, Andy Ridgwell, Allison L Keller, Maximilian Vahlenkamp, Adam K Aleksinski, Philip F Sexton, Donald E Penman, Pincelli M Hull & Richard D Norris (2024)
Sensitivity of ocean circulation to warming during the Early Eocene greenhouse
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(24): e2311980121
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2311980121
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2311980121
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Lauren E. Burton, Alan M. Haywood, Julia C. Tindall, Aisling M. Dolan, Daniel J. Hill, Erin L. McClymont, Sze Ling Ho, and Heather L. Ford (2024)
The role of atmospheric CO2 in controlling sea surface temperature change during the Pliocene.
Climate of the Past 20(5): 1177-1194
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1177-2024
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/20/1177/2024/
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https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/20/1177/2024/cp-20-1177-2024.pdf
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Lianting Jiang, Chun'an Tang, Bin Gong, Zhen Chen, Tiantian Chen, Zhanjie Qin & Guoneng Chen (2024)
Origin of continental red beds: Warming from above or heating from below?
Solid Earth Sciences 9(3): 100187
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sesci.2024.100187
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451912X24000254
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Salva Duran-Nebreda, R. Alexander Bentley, Blai Vidiella, Andrej Spiridonov, Niles Eldredge, Michael J. O’Brien & Sergi Valverde (2024)
On the multiscale dynamics of punctuated evolution
Trends in Ecology & Evolution (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.05.003
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534724001149
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