摄取物生态在塑造食肉类的头骨进化过程中超过了内在的约束 波斯时代的突触类动物

Elías Adán Warshaw1,2, Suresh Anmol Singh3,4, Michael James Benton3

  • 1School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, UK. elias.warshaw.25@ucl.ac.uk.

Communications biology
|March 13, 2026
PubMed
概括

肉食突触类动物,第一个陆地顶峰捕食者,进化了可适应的头骨形状,这是由自然选择和竞争驱动的,而不是进化约束. 它们的特征与后来的哺乳动物相融合,在深远的时间表现出宏观进化过程.

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