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Africa: Embryo Fossil Found in South Africa Is World's Oldest Proof That Mammal Ancestors Laid Eggs: [The Conversation Africa] Between 280 and 200 million years ago, a group of animals evolved which would eventually give rise to mammals, including humans: the therapsids. They were first described more than 150 years ago, based on fossils from South Africa. Since then, many more fossils have been discovered. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRym8t #Africa #Fossils #Paleontology #Therapsids #MammalEvolution

Thomas Holtz Mar 26, 2023

#NewPaper #MammalEvolution

Matthew J. Phillips, Mélina A. Celik & Robin M.D. Beck (2023)

The evolutionary relationships of Diprotodontia and improving the accuracy of phylogenetic inference from morphological data

Alcheringa (advance online publication)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2184492

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2023.2184492

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03115518.2023.2184492

The evolutionary relationships of Diprotodontia and improving the accuracy of phylogenetic inference from morphological data

Large-scale molecular datasets have generally outperformed morphological data for inferring phylogeny, and sources of error in the latter are poorly understood. The morphologically and ecologically...

Taylor & Francis

Thomas Holtz Mar 26, 2023

#NewPaper #MammalEvolution #EvoDevo

Charles Y. Feigin, Jorge A. Moreno, Raul Ramos, Sarah A. Mereby, Ares Alivisatos, Wei Wang, Renée van Amerongen, Jasmin Camacho, John J. Rasweiler, Richard R. Behringer, Bruce Ostrow, Maksim V. Plikus & Ricardo Mallarino (2023)

Convergent deployment of ancestral functions during the evolution of mammalian flight membranes

SCIENCE ADVANCES 9(12): eade7511

doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ade7511

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade7511