Bat Skulls And Evolution

Thursday, November 24, 2011 - 05:40 in Biology & Nature

Why do some lineages develop many species, while others don’t? Morphological innovations, ecological opportunities, competition, cooperation, …? Thanks to advances in phylogenetic techniques, it is now becoming possible to have a look at diversification rates in certain lineages and link this with a possible driver for it.And that’s exactly what a research team has done in a bat family. In their own words: read more

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