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ArticleeLife2024

The trunk replaces the longer mandible as the main feeding organ in elephant evolution.

Chunxiao Li, Tao Deng, Yang Wang, Fajun Sun, Burt Wolff, Qigao Jiangzuo, Jiao Ma, Luda Xing, Jiao Fu, Ji Zhang and 1 more

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Article in eLife, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Chunxiao LiUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9278-3473
Tao DengUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Yang WangDepartment of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8232-3289
Fajun SunEnvironmental Science & Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, United States.
Burt WolffDepartment of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, United States.
Qigao JiangzuoKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4773-5349
Jiao MaKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Luda XingUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Jiao FuUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Ji ZhangSchool of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8206-4531
Shiqi WangKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7752-5620

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China No.2023YFF0804501National Natural Science Foundation of China 41625005National Natural Science Foundation of China 52178141
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The long-trunked elephantids underwent a significant evolutionary stage characterized by an exceptionally elongated mandible. The initial elongation and subsequent regression of the long mandible, along with its co-evolution with the trunk, present an intriguing issue that remains incompletely understood. Through comparative functional and eco-morphological investigations, as well as feeding preference analysis, we reconstructed the feeding behavior of major groups of longirostrine elephantiforms. In the

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Biological EvolutionElephantsFeeding BehaviorMandibleAnimalsFossilsPhylogenyecologyelephantevolutionary biologyfinite element analysismandibleMiocenenonestable isotopetrunk

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PMID38900028
PMCPMC11189625

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