The distinct patterns between the cranium and mandible in galidiines follow an overall trend of decoupled modes of evolution between the cranium and mandible across carnivorans, where cranial evolution tends to follow clade-based shifts, whereas mandibular evolution is linked instead to broad dietary regimes [ 36 , 70 ].
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Skull evolution and lineage diversification in endemic Malagasy carnivorans.
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