Patterns of skeletal integration in birds reveal that adaptation of element shapes enables coordinated evolution between anatomical modules
Birds show tremendous ecological disparity in spite of strong biomechanical constraints imposed by flight. Modular skeletal evolution is generally accepted to have facilitated this, with distinct body regions showing semi-independent evolutionary trajectories. However, this hypothesis has received l...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2021
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