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A study with the participation of the EBD-CSIC rewrite the history of the horse in the American Plains

The Doñana Biological Station – CSIC participates in a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural research between western and traditional Indigenous science to study the evolutionary history of...

Most frogs do not have life cycles with aquatic eggs and larvae

A scientific team led by the Doñana Biological Station analysed the evolution of life cycles and reproductive modes of all the major amphibian clades: frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. The...

Researchers confirm the tendency of vertebrates to dwarfism and gigantism in islands

An international study led by a researcher from Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC) revisits the island rule in vertebrates and confirms the tendency of small-sized and large-sized species towards...

Trait evolution across the tree?of?life of freshwater macroinvertebrates

The rates of species and trait diversification vary across the Tree?of?Life and over time. Whereas species richness and clade age generally are decoupled, the correlation of accumulated trait...

Lack of evolution of sexual size dimorphism in Heteromyidae (Rodentia)

One paradoxical finding in some mammals is the presence of male–male intrasexual competition in the absence of sexual size dimorphism. It has been a major goal of evolutionary biologists for...
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