Soils of South Africa is the first book in seventy years that provides a comprehensive account
of South African soils. The book arranges more than seventy soil forms into fourteen groups …

By the end of the Eocene (37 Ma), species of the genus Hesperocyon began to appear. A
single species, H. gregarius, has been found in the badlands of the western Great Plains …

Members of the order Carnivora display a broad range of locomotor habits, including
cursorial, scansorial, arboreal, semiaquatic, aquatic, and semifossorial species from multiple …

Cape foxes (Vulpes chama) and bat‐eared foxes (Otocyon megalotis) are sympatric with
black‐backed jackals (Canis mesomelas) over much of southern Africa, although …

Understanding the interplay between morphological integration and modularity is
considered an important topic in the study of the evolution of the form of complex structures …

We investigated patterns of evolutionary integration in the appendicular skeleton of
mammalian carnivores. The findings are discussed in relation to performance selection in …

Background Body mass estimation is of paramount importance for paleobiological studies,
as body size influences numerous other biological parameters. In mammals, body mass has …

The association between phenotype and ecology is essential for understanding the
environmental drivers of morphological evolution. This is a particularly challenging task …

The ways in which the taxonomic differences in morphology, behavior or life history relate to
each other have been used regularly to test ideas about the selective forces involved in their …

The body masses of sixteen species of amphicyonids (Mammalia, Carnivora,
Amphicyonidae) from the New and Old World were estimated on the basis of 86 osteological …