Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 27, July 2026.
Despite its central role in hominin evolution, there is little consensus on how body size increased through time. Our study examines competing hypotheses concurrently in a mixed model framework, where we account for phylogenetic relationships…
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) | Evolution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
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