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- Albacete, Javier L., et al.
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Predictions for p + Pb Collisions at sN N = √5 TeV : Comparison with Data
- 2016
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In: International Journal of Modern Physics E. - 0218-3013. ; 25:9
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Research review (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Predictions made in Albacete et al. [Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 22 (2013) 1330007] prior to the LHC p+Pb run at sNN = 5 TeV are compared to currently available data. Some predictions shown here have been updated by including the same experimental cuts as the data. Some additional predictions are also presented, especially for quarkonia, that were provided to the experiments before the data were made public but were too late for the original publication.
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- Bokma, Folmer, et al.
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Testing for Deperet's Rule (Body Size Increase) in Mammals using Combined Extinct and Extant Data
- 2016
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In: Systematic Biology. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1063-5157 .- 1076-836X. ; 65:1, s. 98-108
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Whether or not evolutionary lineages in general show a tendency to increase in body size has often been discussed. This tendency has been dubbed "Cope's rule" but because Cope never hypothesized it, we suggest renaming it after Deperet, who formulated it clearly in 1907. Deperet's rule has traditionally been studied using fossil data, but more recently a number of studies have used present-day species. While several paleontological studies of Cenozoic placental mammals have found support for increasing body size, most studies of extant placentals have failed to detect such a trend. Here, we present a method to combine information from present-day species with fossil data in a Bayesian phylogenetic framework. We apply the method to body mass estimates of a large number of extant and extinct mammal species, and find strong support for Deperet's rule. The tendency for size increase appears to be driven not by evolution toward larger size in established species, but by processes related to the emergence of new species. Our analysis shows that complementary data from extant and extinct species can greatly improve inference of macroevolutionary processes.
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- Werdelin, Lars, et al.
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Carnivora
- 2010
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In: Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. - Berkeley : University of California Press. ; , s. 603-657
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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