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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2017

Island Rule, quantitative genetics and brain-body size evolution in

José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho, Pasquale Raia

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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2 authors.

José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-FilhoDepartamento de Ecologia e PPG em Ecologia and Evolução, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Goiania, GO, Brazil diniz@ufg.br.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0967-9684
Pasquale RaiaDipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e delle Risorse, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4593-8006

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Colonization of islands often activate a complex chain of adaptive events that, over a relatively short evolutionary time, may drive strong shifts in body size, a pattern known as the Island Rule. It is arguably difficult to perform a direct analysis of the natural selection forces behind such a change in body size. Here, we used quantitative evolutionary genetic models, coupled with simulations and pattern-oriented modelling, to analyse the evolution of brain and body size in

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Biological EvolutionBody SizeHominidaeIslandsAnimalsBrainFossilsIndonesiaOrgan Sizeadaptive evolutionbrain–body size correlationdwarfingevolutionary geneticsHomo floresiensisIsland Rule

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PMID28637851
PMCPMC5489739

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