The role of behaviour in adaptive morphological evolution of African proboscideans

Adrian M. Lister ()
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Adrian M. Lister: Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK

Nature, 2013, vol. 500, issue 7462, 331-334

Abstract: To test whether a behavioural change can lead to morphological evolution, stable isotopes in tooth enamel are used to show that archaic elephants were feeding on grassland millions of years before their teeth adapted by becoming high-crowned.

Date: 2013
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