Dynamics of starvation and recovery predict extinction risk and both Damuth's law and Cope's rule.

Nat Commun · 2018 · PMC5811595 · PMID 29440734

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Over evolutionary time, terrestrial mammalian lineages show a significant trend toward larger body size—Cope’s rule 29 – 32 .

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