The role of behaviour in adaptive morphological evolution of African proboscideans - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2013 Aug 15;500(7462):331-4.

doi: 10.1038/nature12275. Epub 2013 Jun 26.

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The role of behaviour in adaptive morphological evolution of African proboscideans

Adrian M Lister. Nature. 2013.

Abstract

The fossil record richly illustrates the origin of morphological adaptation through time. However, our understanding of the selective forces responsible in a given case, and the role of behaviour in the process, is hindered by assumptions of synchrony between environmental change, behavioural innovation and morphological response. Here I show, from independent proxy data through a 20-million-year sequence of fossil proboscideans in East Africa, that changes in environment, diet and morphology are often significantly offset chronologically, allowing dissection of the roles of behaviour and different selective drivers. These findings point the way to hypothesis-driven testing of the interplay between habitat change, behaviour and morphological adaptation with the use of independent proxies in the fossil record.

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