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The Evolution of Reproductive Complexity in Fishes
<p>How does reproductive complexity evolve? In this dissertation, I investigate the evolution of parental investment and mating behavior, using both macro- and microevolutionary lenses. I use fishes, the most diverse group of vertebrates, comprising over 30,000 species, as a model to study the …
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The Multituberculates as Living Animals: New Insights into the Ecomorphology, Behavior, and Life History of One of the Most Successful Mammalian Lineages
… diversity of ecological niches, approaching the complexity and specialization of extant therian mammals. Among the most evolutionarily diverse and numerically abundant of these early mammals were the Multituberculata, an extinct group of mostly small-bodied (< 1 kg) herbivores and omnivores whose …