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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Huvudupphovsmän: Gerkema, M, Davies, W, Foster, R, Menaker, M, Hut, R
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: 2013