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As always, I hope people are staying safe and well.
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Here are some recent vertpaleo and evolution papers with free pdfs:
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Ashley S. Hammond, Silindokuhle S. Mavuso, Maryse Biernat, David R. Braun, Zubair Jinnah, Sharon Kuo, Sahleselasie Melaku, Sylvia N. Wemanya, Emmanuel K. Ndiema, David B. Patterson, Kevin T. Uno & Dan V. Palcu (2021)
New hominin remains and revised context from the earliest Homo erectus locality in East Turkana, Kenya.
Nature Communications 12:1939
doi:Â https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22208-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22208-x
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22208-x.pdf
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Eduardo Mayoral, Ignacio DÃaz-MartÃnez, JÃremy Duveau, Ana Santos, Antonio RodrÃguez RamÃrez, Juan A. Morales, Luis A. Morales&Â Ricardo DÃaz-Delgado (2021)
Tracking late Pleistocene Neandertals on the Iberian coast.
Scientific Reports 11:4103
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83413-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83413-8
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83413-8.pdf
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H.W.K. Berghuis, A. Veldkamp, Shinatria Adhityatama, Sander L. Hilgen, Indra Sutisna, Didit Hadi Barianto, Eduard A.L. Pop, Tony Reimann, Dida Yurnaldi, Dian Rahayu Ekowati, Hubert B. Vonhof, Thijs van Kolfschoten, Truman Simanjuntak, J.M. Schoorl & Josephine C.A. Joordens (2021)
Hominin homelands of East Java: Revised stratigraphy and landscape reconstructions for Plio-Pleistocene Trinil.
Quaternary Science Reviews 260: 106912
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106912
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379121001190
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Ekaterina Stansfield, Philipp Mitteroecker, Sergey Y. Vasilyev, Sergey Vasilyev & Lauren N. Butaric (2021)
Respiratory adaptation to climate in modern humans and Upper Palaeolithic individuals from Sungir and MladeÄ.
Scientific Reports 11:7997
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86830-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-86830-x
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-86830-x.pdf
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Kalaallitkigun jenkinsi, gen. et sp. nov.
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Tomasz Sulej, Grzegorz KrzesiÅski, Mateusz TaÅanda, Andrzej S. Wolniewicz, BÅaÅej BÅaÅejowski, Niels Bonde, Piotr Gutowski, Maksymilian Sienkiewicz, and Grzegorz NiedÅwiedzki (2020)
The earliest-known mammaliaform fossil from Greenland sheds light on origin of mammals.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(43): 26861-26867
doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2012437117
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/43/26861
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Huw A Ogilvie, FÃbio K Mendes, Timothy G Vaughan, Nicholas J Matzke, Tanja Stadler, David Welch, Alexei J Drummond (2021)
Novel Integrative Modeling of Molecules and Morphology Pinpoints Caninae Evolution across Timescales.
bioRxiv 242875; (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/242875
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/242875v2
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Larisa R.G. DeSantis, Robert S.Feranec, Mauricio AntÃn & Ernest L. Lundelius Jr. (2021)
Dietary ecology of the scimitar-toothed cat Homotherium serum.
Current Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.061
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982221004346
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https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)00434-6
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https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2821%2900434-6
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Johanna L.A. Paijmans, Axel Barlow, Matthew S. Becker, James A. Cahill, Joerns Fickel, Daniel W.G. FÃrster, Katrin Gries, Stefanie Hartmann, Rasmus WorsÃe HavmÃller, Kirstin Henneberger, Christian Kern, Andrew C. Kitchener, Eline D. Lorenzen, Frieder Mayer, Stephen J. OBrien, Johanna von Seth, Mikkel-Holder S. Sinding, GÃran Spong, Olga Uphyrkina, Bettina Wachter, Michael V. Westbury, Love DalÃn, Jong Bhak, Andrea Manica & Michael Hofreiter (2021)
African and Asian leopards are highly differentiated at the genomic level.
Current Biology (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.084
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)00457-7
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Y.V. Lobachev, Ð.V. Shpansky, A.A. Bondarev, A.Y. Lobachev, S.K. Vasiliev, A.M. Klementev, I.E. Grebnev, and V.I. Silaev (2021)
New findings of Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis in Siberia.
Palaeontologia Electronica, 24(1):a14
doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/734
https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2021/3322-stephanorhinus-kirchbergensis-in-siberia
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Jia-Cih Kang, Chien-Hsiang Lin & Chun-Hsiang Chang (2021)
Age and growth of Palaeoloxodon huaihoensis from Penghu Channel, Taiwan: significance of their age distribution based on fossils
PeerJ 9:e11236
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11236
https://peerj.com/articles/11236/
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Fedor S. Sharko, Eugenia S. Boulygina, Svetlana V. Tsygankova, Natalia V. Slobodova, Dmitry A. Alekseev, Anna A. Krasivskaya, Sergey M. Rastorguev, Alexei N. Tikhonov & Artem V. Nedoluzhko (2021)
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Stellerâs sea cow genome suggests this species began going extinct before the arrival of Paleolithic humans.
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Nature Communications 12:2215
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Advance papers for an issue of the Chinese Science Bulletin, Chinese edition, about Cenozoic mammals in China. The articles are in Chinese, but each has an English abstract and translated figure captions. The pdf citation dates are 2021 rather than 2020, so that's what I used.
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Shaokun Chen, Libo Pang, Yan Wu & Xin Hu (2021)
An assemblage of Stegodon orientalis fossils from the Yumidong Cave site in Wushan, Chongqing Municipality, with emphasis on the taphonomic analysis.
Chinese Science Bulletin 66 (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1360/TB-2020-0674
https://www.sciengine.com/publisher/scp/journal/CSB/doi/10.1360/TB-2020-0674
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Chunxiao Li, Xueping Ji, Shitao Zhang, Jun Luo, Yanping Su, Yanbo Li, Ming Zhen, Sukuan Hou, Qigao Jiangzuo, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Yunsheng Zhu, Huaili Xu, Xiaochun Bai, Yi Yang & Shiqi Wang (2021)
The new fossil record of Stegolophodon latidens from the Xiaolongtan locality, Yunnan, China, and the discussion on the age of the Lufengpithecus keiyuanensis.
Chinese Science Bulletin 66 (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1360/TB-2020-0769
https://www.sciengine.com/publisher/scp/journal/CSB/doi/10.1360/TB-2020-0769
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Yan Li, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Chunxiao Li & Shiqi Wang (2021)
The first cranium of Miomastodon gobiensis and its biostratigraphic distribution.
Chinese Science Bulletin 66 (advance online publication)
doi:Â https://doi.org/10.1360/TB-2020-0733
https://www.sciengine.com/publisher/scp/journal/CSB/doi/10.1360/TB-2020-0733
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Shiqi Wang & Ji Zhang (2021)
Mandibular functional morphology diverse and mechanical adaptations of amebelodontids in relation to their feeding behaviors.
Chinese Science Bulletin 66 (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1360/TB-2020-0673
https://www.sciengine.com/publisher/scp/journal/CSB/doi/10.1360/TB-2020-0673
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Qigao Jiangzuo (2021)
Geographical and chronological distribution of Chinese Pleistocene large canids: Current status and prospects.
Chinese Science Bulletin 66 (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1360/TB-2020-0690
https://www.sciengine.com/publisher/scp/journal/CSB/doi/10.1360/TB-2020-0690
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Yu Li, Wenhui Liu & Lihua Wang (2021)
Chinese Machairodontinae (Carnivora, Felidae) and their ecological significance.
Chinese Science Bulletin 66 (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1360/TB-2020-1164
https://www.sciengine.com/publisher/scp/journal/CSB/doi/10.1360/TB-2020-1164
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Xiaokang Lu, Tao Deng & Xueping Ji (2021)
Postcranial bones of Acerorhinus yuanmouensis from the Late Miocene of the Yuanmou Basin, China, and body reconstruction.
Chinese Science Bulletin 66 (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1360/TB-2020-0743
https://www.sciengine.com/publisher/scp/journal/CSB/doi/10.1360/TB-2020-0743
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Boyang Sun & Tao Deng (2021)
New specimens of anchitheriine from the Linxia Basin, Gansu and evolution of East Asian anchitheriines.
Chinese Science Bulletin 66 (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1360/TB-2020-0786
https://www.sciengine.com/publisher/scp/journal/CSB/doi/10.1360/TB-2020-0786
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Qinqin Shi (2021)
Dental microwear analysis in mammals: Teeth, diet and ecology
Chinese Science Bulletin 66 (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1360/TB-2020-0984
https://www.sciengine.com/publisher/scp/journal/CSB/doi/10.1360/TB-2020-0984
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Qian Wu, Alida M. Bailleul, Zhiheng Li, Jingmai OâConnor and Zhonghe Zhou (2021)
Osteohistology of the Scapulocoracoid of Confuciusornis and Preliminary Analysis of the Shoulder Joint in Aves.
Frontiers in Earth Science 9:617124.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.617124
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2021.617124/full
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Christian Foth, Shiying Wang, Frederik Spindler, Yang Lin and Rui Yang (2021)
A Juvenile Specimen of Archaeorhynchus Sheds New Light on the Ontogeny of Basal Euornithines.
Frontiers in Earth Science 9: 604520
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.604520
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2021.604520/full
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P. J. Bishop, A. Falisse, F. De Groote & J. R. Hutchinson (2021)
Predictive simulations of musculoskeletal function and jumping performance in a generalized bird.
Integrative Organismal Biology: obab006
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obab006
https://academic.oup.com/iob/advance-article/doi/10.1093/iob/obab006/6226705
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Guillermo NavalÃn, Sergio M. Nebreda, Jen A. Bright, Matteo Fabbri, Roger B. J. Benson, Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, JesÃs MarugÃn-LobÃn and Emily J. Rayfield (2021)
Craniofacial development illuminates the evolution of nightbirds (Strisores)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288(1948): 20210181
doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0181
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.0181
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2021.0181
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Gerald May, Vanesa De Pietri & R. Paul Scofield (2021)
New bird remains from the early Eocene Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia (USA), including the first records of the Messelasturidae, Psittacopedidae, and Zygodactylidae from the Fisher/Sullivan site.
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2021.1910820
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2021.1910820
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08912963.2021.1910820
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Cheng-Hsiu Tsai & Gerald Mayr (2021)
A phasianid bird from the Pleistocene of Tainan: the very first avian fossil from Taiwan.
Journal of Ornithology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-021-01886-w
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10336-021-01886-w
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https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10336-021-01886-w.pdf
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Terry L. Jones, Joan Brenner Coltrain, David K. Jacobs, Judith Porcasi, Simon C. Brewer, Janet C. Buckner, John D. Perrine & Brian F.Codding (2021)
Causes and consequences of the late Holocene extinction of the marine flightless duck (Chendytes lawi) in the northeastern Pacific.
Quaternary Science Reviews 260: 106914
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106914
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379121001219
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George Sangster & Gerald Mayr (2021)
Feraequornithes: a name for the clade formed by Procellariiformes, Sphenisciformes, Ciconiiformes, Suliformes and Pelecaniformes (Aves).
Vertebrate Zoology 71: 49-53
https://doi:10.3897/vz.71.e61728
https://vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/61728/
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Charles R. Marshall, Daniel V. Latorre, Connor J. Wilson, Tanner M. Frank, Katherine M. Magoulick, Joshua B. Zimmt & Ashley W. Poust (2021)
Absolute abundance and preservation rate of Tyrannosaurus rex.
Science 372(6539): 284-287
DOI: 10.1126/science.abc8300
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6539/284
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Cariad J. Williams, Martino Pani, Andrea Bucchi, Roy E. Smith, Alexander Kao, William Keeble, Nizar Ibrahim & David M. Martill (2021)
Helically arranged cross struts in azhdarchid pterosaur cervical vertebrae and their biomechanical implications.
iScience 102338
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102338
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004221003060
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ÂKunpengopterus antipollicatus sp. nov.
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Xuanyu Zhou, Rodrigo V. PÃgas, Waisum Ma, Gang Han, Xingsheng Jin, Maria E.C. Leal, Niels Bonde, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Stephan Lautenschlager, Xuefang Wei, Caizhi Shen & Shuâan Ji (2021)
A new darwinopteran pterosaur reveals arborealism and an opposed thumb.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.030
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982221003699
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https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)00369-9
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Hendrik Klein and Spencer G. Lucas (2021)
The Triassic Tetrapod Footprint Record.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin 83: 1-194
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347895198_THE_TRIASSIC_TETRAPOD_FOOTPRINT_RECORD
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Siegfried Schloissnig, Akane Kawaguchi, Sergej Nowoshilow, Francisco Falcon, Leo Otsuki, Pietro Tardivo, Nataliya Timoshevskaya, Melissa C. Keinath, Jeramiah James Smith, S. Randal Voss, and Elly M. Tanaka (2021)
The giant axolotl genome uncovers the evolution, scaling, and transcriptional control of complex gene loci.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (15): e2017176118
doi: ttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2017176118
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/15/e2017176118
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https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/118/15/e2017176118.full.pdf
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Georgios L. GEORGALIS, Andrej ÄERÅANSKÃ & Serdar MAYDA (2021)
Late Paleogene herpetofaunas from the crossroads between two continents â new amphibian and reptile remains from the Oligocene of southern Balkans and Anatolia.
in FOLIE A., BUFFETAUT E., BARDET N., HOUSSAYE A., GHEERBRANT E. & LAURIN M. (eds), Palaeobiology and palaeobiogeography of amphibians and reptiles: An homage to Jean-Claude Rage.
Comptes Rendus Palevol 20(15): 253-275
doi:. https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2021v20a15
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/20/15
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Bermanerpeton kinneyi gen. et sp. nov.
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Ralf Werneburg, Joerg W. Schneider and Spencer G. Lucas (2021)
The new dvinosaurian Bermanerpeton kinneyi (Temnospondyli), with "branchiosaurid" characters, from the Late Pennsylvanian Kinney Brick Quarry in New Mexico.
In: Lucas, S. G., Hunt, A. P. & Lichtig, A. J., 2021, Fossil Record 7. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 82:ÂÂ 433-451
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Ralf Werneburg, Joerg W. Schneider and Spencer G. Lucas (2021)
The "amphibamid" and "branchiosaurid" morphotype in the dissorophoid Milnererpeton huberi (Temnospondyli), from the Late Pennsylvanian Kinney Brick Quarry in New Mexico.
In: Lucas, S. G., Hunt, A. P. & Lichtig, A. J., 2021, Fossil Record 7. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 82:Â 425-432
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Dracopristis hoffmanorum gen et sp. nov.
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John-Paul M. Hodnett, Eileen D. Grogan, Richard Lund, Spencer G. Lucas, Tom Suazo, David K. Elliott and Jesse Pruitt (2021)
Ctenacanthiform Sharks From The Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian) Tinajas Member Of The Atrasado Formation, Central New Mexico
In: Lucas, S. G., Hunt, A. P. & Lichtig, A. J., 2021, Fossil Record 7. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 82:ÂÂ 391-424
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John-Paul M. Hodnett and Spencer G. Lucas (2021)
Review of the Late Pennsylvanian fish assemblage from the Kinney Brick Quarry, New Mexico.
In: Lucas, S. G., Hunt, A. P. & Lichtig, A. J., 2021, Fossil Record 7. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 82:ÂÂ 359-390
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Henk J. Diependaal and Jelle W.F. Reumer (2021)
Note on the Rhaetian fish fauna from a subrosion pipe in Winterswijk (the Netherlands), with a discussion on the validity of the genus Severnichthys Storrs, 1994.
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 100: e9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/njg.2021.5
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Conrad D. Wilson, Chris F. Mansky & Jason S. Anderson (2021)
A platysomid occurrence from the Tournaisian of Nova Scotia.
Scientific Reports 11:8375
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87027-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-87027-y
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Virginia Abdala, Luciana Cristobal, MÃnica C. SolÃz and Daniel A. Dos Santos (2021)
Geographical Information System Applied to a Biological System: Pelvic Girdle Ontogeny as a Morphoscape.
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 642255.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.642255
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.642255/full
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Melissa I. Pardi and Larisa R. G. DeSantis (2021)
Dietary plasticity of North American herbivores: a synthesis of stable isotope data over the past 7 million years.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288(1948): 20210121
doi:Â https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0121
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.0121
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Yuting Zhong, Magdalena H Huyskens, Qing-Zhu Yin, Yaqiong Wang, Qiang Ma &Â Yi-Gang Xu (2021)
High-Precision Geochronological Constraints on the Duration of 'Dinosaurs Pompeii' and the Yixian Formation.
National Science Review: nwab063 (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab063
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwab063/6223474
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Corey JA Bradshaw, Christopher N Johnson, John Llewelyn, Vera Weisbecker, Giovanni Strona, FrÃdÃrik Saltrà (2021)
Relative demographic susceptibility does not explain the extinction chronology of Sahulâs megafauna.
eLife 10: e63870
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.63870
https://elifesciences.org/articles/63870
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Luciano Prates & S. Ivan Perez (2021)
Late Pleistocene South American megafaunal extinctions associated with rise of Fishtail points and human population.
Nature Communications 12: 2175
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22506-4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22506-4
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David S. Douw, Belle E.I. van Rijssen, Renà H.B. Fraaije & Jonathan J.W. Wallaard (2021)
Analysis of Late Pleistocene megafauna and puparia from the Lent dredging site, province of Gelderland (the Netherlands).
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 100: e10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/njg.2021.7
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BÃrbara JimÃnez-Pazos (2021)
Darwinâs perception of nature and the question of disenchantment: a semantic analysis across the six editions of On the Origin of Species.
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43: 57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00373-y
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40656-021-00373-y
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