2023
DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.28.560051
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Facing the facts: Adaptive trade-offs along body size ranges determine mammalian craniofacial scaling

D. Rex Mitchell,
Emma Sherratt,
Vera Weisbecker

Abstract: The mammalian cranium (skull without lower jaw) is representative of mammalian diversity and is thus of particular interest to mammalian biologists across disciplines. One widely retrieved pattern accompanying mammalian cranial diversification is referred to as “craniofacial evolutionary allometry” (CREA). This posits that “adults of larger species, in a group of closely related mammals, tend to have relatively longer faces and smaller braincases”. However, no process has been officially suggested to explain t… Show more

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