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1/How did #megaherbivores come into existence? How did they evolve into multitonne sizes? Today we present our results @ScienceMagazine
[science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…]

#macroevolution #brontotheres #paleontology #paleobiology

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2/ The emergence of large animals is a recurrent feature in #evolution. Traditionally, this pattern has been understood as the natural outcome of an almost-universal adaptive advantage of being larger. This notion is generally known as ‘Cope’s rule’.
3/ The mechanism is expected to produce definitive and gradual trends towards large sizes by means of natural selection. Image
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