Background: For almost two centuries, ecologists examined geographical patterns in the evolution of body size and the associated determinants. During that time, one of the most common patterns to ha
The independent evolution of gigantism among dinosaurs has been a topic of longstanding interest, but it remains unclear if gigantic theropods, the largest bipeds in the fossil record, all achieved ma
Starting from a view on language as a complex, hierarchically organized system composed of many parts that have many interactions, this paper investigates statistical relationships between the linguis