Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "comparative method"
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The 10kTrees Website: A New Online Resource for Primate Phylogeny
(John Wiley & Sons, 2010)The comparative method plays a central role in efforts to uncover the adaptive basis for primate behaviors, morphological traits, and cognitive abilities.[1-4] The comparative method has been used, for example, to infer ... -
Behavioral convergence and adaptive radiation: effects of habitat use on territorial behavior in Anolis lizards
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)Most studies of adaptive radiations focus on morphological aspects of differentiation, yet behavior is also an important component of evolutionary diversification, often mediating the relationship between animal ecology ... -
Ecology of hemiepiphytism in fig species is based on evolutionary correlation of hydraulics and carbon economy
(Ecological Society of America, 2011)Woody hemiepiphytic species (Hs) are important components of tropical rain forests, and they have been hypothesized to differ from non-hemiepiphytic tree species (NHs) in adaptations relating to water relations and carbon ... -
Evolutionary Dynamics of Intron Size, Genome Size, and Physiological Correlates in Archosaurs
(University of Chicago Press, 2002)It has been proposed that intron and genome sizes in birds are reduced in comparison with mammals because of the metabolic demands of flight. To test this hypothesis, we examined the sizes of 14 introns in a nonflying ... -
A Phylogenetic Perspective on Foraging Mode Evolution and Habitat Use in West Indian Anolis Lizards
(Elsevier, 2008)Although many descriptive studies of foraging mode have been performed, the factors that underlie the evolution of foraging mode remain poorly understood. To test the hypothesis that foraging mode evolution is affected by ... -
Phylogenetic Targeting of Research Effort in Evolutionary Biology
(University of Chicago Press, 2010)Many questions in comparative biology require that new data be collected, either to build a comparative database for the first time or to augment existing data. Given resource limitations in collecting data, the question ... -
A Phylogenetic Test for Adaptive Convergence in Rock-dwelling Lizards
(Blackwell Publishing, 2007)Phenotypic similarity of species occupying similar habitats has long been taken as strong evidence of adaptation, but this approach implicitly assumes that similarity is evolutionarily derived. However, even derived ...