Macroevolution

Open Access, Note

Detecting the Signature of Body Mass Evolution in the Broad-Scale Architecture of Food Webs

John P. DeLong

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-DeLong.html

High Preservation Potential of Paleogeographic Range Size Distributions in Deep Time

Simon A. F. Darroch, Michelle M. Casey, Gwen S. Antell, Amy Sweeney, and Erin E. Saupe

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-Darroch.html

Mammal Community Structure through the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Danielle Fraser and S. Kathleen Lyons

Selection and Constraints in the Ecomorphological Adaptive Evolution of the Skull of Living Canidae (Carnivora, Mammalia)

Fabio Andrade Machado

Evolutionary Pathways to Communal and Cooperative Breeding in Carnivores

Valentine Federico, Dominique Allainé, Jean-Michel Gaillard, and Aurélie Cohas

Why Are There So Many Flowering Plants? A Multiscale Analysis of Plant Diversification

Tania Hernández-Hernández and John J. Wiens

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/June-Hernandez.html

Open Access

Revisiting a Landmark Study System: No Evidence for a Punctuated Mode of Evolution in Metrarabdotos

Kjetil Lysne Voje, Emanuela Di Martino, and Arthur Porto

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/May-Voje.html

Does Evolutionary History Correlate with Contemporary Extinction Risk by Influencing Range Size Dynamics?

Andrew J. Tanentzap, Javier Igea, Matthew G. Johnston, and Matthew J. Larcombe

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Tanentzap.html

Developmental Constraints Do Not Influence Long-Term Phenotypic Evolution of Marsupial Forelimbs as Revealed by Interspecific Disparity and Integration Patterns

Alberto Martín-Serra and Roger B. J. Benson

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Martin-Serra.html

Open Access, Symposium

Memory in Trait Macroevolution

Emma E. Goldberg and Jasmine Foo

Transitions between the Terrestrial and Epiphytic Habit Drove the Evolution of Seed-Aerodynamic Traits in Orchids

Xu-Li Fan, Guillaume Chomicki, Kai Hao, Qiang Liu, Ying-Ze Xiong, Susanne S. Renner, Jiang-Yun Gao, and Shuang-Quan Huang

Wasp Waist and Flight: Convergent Evolution in Wasps Reveals a Link between Wings and Body Shapes

Adrien Perrard

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Feb-Perrard.html

Macroevolutionary Origin and Adaptive Function of a Polymorphic Female Signal Involved in Sexual Conflict

Beatriz Willink, M. Catherine Duryea, and Erik I. Svensson

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Willink.html

Consistent Associations between Body Size and Hidden Contrasting Color Signals across a Range of Insect Taxa

Karl Loeffler-Henry, Changku Kang, and Thomas N. Sherratt

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulyLoefflerHenry.html

Macroevolutionary Patterning in Glucocorticoids Suggests Different Selective Pressures Shape Baseline and Stress-Induced Levels

Maren N. Vitousek, Michele A. Johnson, Cynthia J. Downs, Eliot T. Miller, Lynn B. Martin, Clinton D. Francis, Jeremy W. Donald, Matthew J. Fuxjager, Wolfgang Goymann, Michaela Hau, Jerry F. Husak, Bonnie K. Kircher, Rosemary Knapp, Laura A. Schoenle, and Tony D. Williams

Historical Perspective

Revisiting a Key Innovation in Evolutionary Biology: Felsenstein’s “Phylogenies and the Comparative Method”

Raymond B. Huey, Theodore Garland Jr., and Michael Turelli

Detecting Mosaic Patterns in Macroevolutionary Disparity

Caroline Parins-Fukuchi

Speciation Rate Is Independent of the Rate of Evolution of Morphological Size, Shape, and Absolute Morphological Specialization in a Large Clade of Birds

Nicholas M. A. Crouch and Robert E. Ricklefs