The nocturnal bottleneck and the evolution of activity patterns in mammals.
In 1942, Walls described the concept of a 'nocturnal bottleneck' in placental mammals, where these species could survive only by avoiding daytime activity during times in which dinosaurs were the dominant taxon. Walls based this concept of a longer episode of nocturnality in early eutheria...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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