High‐crowned (hypsodont) teeth are widely found among both extant and extinct
mammalian herbivores. Extant grazing ungulates (hoofed mammals) have hypsodont teeth …

This paper presents a brief synopsis of work on relationships between mammalian tooth
form and function, and considers the role of dental wear in studies of mammal teeth …

Comparative studies tend to differ from optimality and functionality studies in how they treat
adaptation. While the comparative approach focuses on the origin and change of traits …

The analysis of fossil ungulate cheek teeth has long been one of the main sources of
information about the terrestrial environments of the Cenozoic, but the methods used to …

A new and greatly simplified methodology for the assessment of the dietary adaptations of
living and fossil taxa has been developed which allows for microwear scar topography to be …

The current literature on marsupial phylogenetics includes numerous studies based on
analyses of morphological data with limited sampling of Recent and fossil taxa, and many …

In the tradition of GG Simpson's classic work, Kenneth D. Rose's The Beginning of the Age of
Mammals analyzes the events that occurred directly before and after the mysterious KT …

Fossil teeth of terrestrial plant-eating mammals offer a new, quasi-quantitative proxy for
environmental aridity that resolves previously unseen regional features across the Eurasian …

The outcome of many high-order processes in ecology depends on the way in which the
abundance and distribution of plants affect the eating rate of mammalian herbivores …

Organisms use signals of quality to communicate information about aspects of their relative
phenotypic and genetic constitution,,,. Badges of status,, are a subset of signals of quality …