Analyses of morphological disparity have been used to characterize and investigate the
evolution of variation in the anatomy, function and ecology of organisms since the 1980s …

Evolutionary biology is multivariate, and advances in phylogenetic comparative methods for
multivariate phenotypes have surged to accommodate this fact. Evolutionary trends in …

The ecological origin of snakes remains amongst the most controversial topics in evolution,
with three competing hypotheses: fossorial; marine; or terrestrial. Here we use a geometric …

Factors intrinsic and extrinsic to organisms dictate the course of morphological evolution but
are seldom considered together in comparative analyses. Among vertebrates, squamates …

Multidimensional analysis of traits are now common in ecology and evolution and are based
on trait spaces in which each dimension summarizes the observed trait combination (a …

Ontogenetic allometry, how species change with size through their lives, and heterochony, a
decoupling between shape, size, and age, are major contributors to biological diversity …

Allometry has been the focus of growing interest in studies using geometric morphometric
methods to address a wide range of research questions at the interface of ecology and …

Elongated snake‐like bodies associated with limb reduction have evolved multiple times
throughout vertebrate history. Limb‐reduced squamates (lizards and snakes) account for the …

Species occupying similar selective environments often share similar phenotypes as the
result of natural selection. Recent discoveries, however, have led to the understanding that …

A defining character of adaptive radiations is the evolution of a diversity of morphological
forms that are associated with the use of different habitats, following the invasion of vacant …