Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics.

Proc Biol Sci · 2017 · PMC5454272 · PMID 28539520

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(a) Time homogeneous processes and sampling bias cannot explain the late origin of gigantism It is well known that an apparent trend towards size increase (or decrease) through time could equally be the outcome of an actual bias in the direction of size evolution or owing to an unbiased process in which variance increases through time [ 20 , 46 , 47 ].

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