Comentario sobre "La selección sexual promueve la evolución de la cabeza y el cuello de las jirafas y la adaptación

Sukuan Hou1,2,3, Qinqin Shi1,2, Michael J Benton4

  • 1Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 16, 2023
PubMed
Resumen

Este estudio desafía la clasificación de un rumiante del Mioceno temprano como una jirafa. Los autores argumentan que esta clasificación errónea debilita la hipótesis de que la selección sexual impulsó la evolución de la cabeza y el cuello de las jirafas.

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