Body size correlates with virtually every aspect of species' biology, so understanding the tempo and mode of its evolution is of key importance in macroecology and macroevolution. Here we use body-mas
The Middle Jurassic was a key interval of mammalian evolutionary history that witnessed the diversification of the therian stem-group. Great Britain has yielded a significant record of mammalian fossi
The egyptian goddess abaset was a minor hedgehog-deity. her presence was attested only in the 26th dynasty (656-525 bc). She was solely venerated on the eastern fringe of el-bawiti, the capital of bah
This is an illustration of the birdman on a shell cup from Spiro. Reilly interprets this image as the Morning Star. From Reilly 2007 "The Petaloid Motif: A Celestial Symbolic Locative in the Shell A
Explanations for the evolution of body size in mammals have remained surprisingly elusive despite the central importance of body size in evolutionary biology. Here, we present a model which argues tha
