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Historical Biology
An International Journal of Paleobiology
Volume 29, 2017 - Issue 5
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Body size in (mostly) mammals: mass, speciation rates and the translation of gamma to alpha diversity on evolutionary timescales

Robert A. MartinDepartment of Biological Sciences, Murray State University, Murray, KY42071, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 576-593 | Received 25 Feb 2016, Accepted 04 Jul 2016, Published online: 02 Aug 2016

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Robert A. Martin, David L. Fox, Andrew Urevig, Makayla R. P. Dean, Adam N. Rountrey & Pablo Peláez-Campomanes. (2022) Fluctuation of body mass in cotton rats and pocket gophers during the late Cenozoic in the Meade basin of Kansas: possible influence of the Huckleberry Ridge Ash-fall. Historical Biology 34:6, pages 983-994.
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Robert A. Martin. (2019) Scaling of species diversity and body mass in mammals: Cope’s rule and the evolutionary cost of large size. Historical Biology 31:9, pages 1242-1255.
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Robert A. Martin. (2019) Body mass and correlated ecological variables in the North American muskrat lineage: evolutionary rates and the tradeoff of large size and speciation potential. Historical Biology 31:5, pages 631-643.
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Noel A. Heim, Jonathan L. Payne, Seth Finnegan, Matthew L. Knope, Michał Kowalewski, S. Kathleen Lyons, Daniel W. McShea, Philip M. Novack-Gottshall, Felisa A. Smith & Steve C. Wang. (2017) Hierarchical complexity and the size limits of life. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284:1857, pages 20171039.
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