Title:

Mammalian evolution underground. The ecological-genetic-phenetic interfaces

Creator:

Nevo, E.

Place of publishing:

Białowieża

Date issued/created:

1995

Description:

The global adaptive convergence of subterranean mammals currently involves 3 orders: rodents, insectivores and marsupials. These include 11 families, 50 genera, and several hundreds of species. This global evolutionary process followed the stepwise climatic cooling and drought followed by biotic extinction in yhe transition from the middle Eocene to the early Oligocene, a period of 10 milion years (35-45 Ma = milion years ago) of profound change in earth geology, climate and biota. The earth changed from the Mesozoic "hot house" to the Neogene (Miocene to Present) "cold house", ie from a warm, equable, mostly subtropical world that persisted from the Mesozoic to the beginning of the present glaciated world.

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

evolutionary convergence ; progression ; regression ; subterranean mammals

Relation:

Acta Theriologica

Volume:

40

Issue:

Suppl. 3

Start page:

9

End page:

31

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

10.4098/AT.arch.95-43

Source:

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Language:

eng ; Sum. eng.

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Digitizing institution:

Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Mammal Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

Access:

Open