The mammalian cranium (skull without lower jaw) is representative of mammalian diversity
and is thus of particular interest to mammalian biologists across disciplines. One widely …

Among evolutionary trends sha** phenotypic diversity over macroevolutionary scales,
CREA (CRaniofacial Evolutionary Allometry) describes a tendency, among closely related …

It has been suggested that larger species of mammals tend to become long-faced when they
diverge in size during an evolutionary radiation. However, whether this allometric pattern …

Clarifying how microevolutionary processes scale to macroevolutionary patterns is a
fundamental goal in evolutionary biology, but these analyses, requiring comparative …

Synopsis “Brachycephaly” is generally considered a phenotype in which the facial part of the
head is pronouncedly shortened. While brachycephaly is characteristic for some domestic …

Size and shape are often considered important variables that lead to variation in
performance. In studies of feeding, size‐corrected metrics of the skull are often used as …

Among vertebrates, placental mammals are particularly variable in the covariance between
cranial shape and body size (allometry), with rodents being a major exception. Australian …

Allometry has been a paradigm of constraints, including intrinsic constraints on the
evolvability of allometry, as a source of developmental and genetic constraints on the …

The shared functions of the skull are thought to result in common evolutionary patterns in
mammalian cranial shape. Craniofacial evolutionary allometry (CREA) is a particularly …

Patterns of selection in South American camelids (Lamini) and their unique demographic
history establish the llama and alpaca as remarkable cases of domestication among large …