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Evolution: Convergence in Dinosaur Crests

Authors :
David W. E. Hone
Source :
Current Biology. 25(12):R494-R496
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2015.

Abstract

Summary The horned, ceratopsid dinosaurs can be easily split into two major groups based on their cranial structures, but now a new discovery shows that at least one genus ‘switched sides' and convergently evolved the form of the other clade.

Subjects

Subjects :
Paleontology
Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
Genus
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
Skull
Animals
Convergence (relationship)
Biology
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Clade
Biological Evolution
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Dinosaurs

Details

ISSN :
09609822
Volume :
25
Issue :
12
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Current Biology
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....c7da21dad5a93ee3b4388c39169c858f
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.04.051
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