RT Journal Article
T1 Decoupled ecomorphological evolution and diversification in Neogene-Quaternary horses
A1 Cantalapiedra, Juan L.
A1 Prado, José Luis
A1 Hernández Fernández, Manuel
A1 Alberdi, María Teresa
AB The mode of evolution of body size and tooth morphology in the Neogene and Quaternary radiation of horses (7 living and 131 extinct species). We show that diversification pulses are a recurrent feature of equid  evolution but that these pulses are not correlated with rapid bursts in phenotypic evolution. Instead, rapid cladogenesis seems repeatedly associated with extrinsic factors that relaxed diversity bounds, such as increasing productivity and geographic dispersals into the Old World. This evidence suggests that diversity dynamics in Equinae were controlled mainly by ecological limits under diversity dependence rather than rapid ecomorphological differentiation.
PB American Association for the Advancement of Science
SN Print ISSN 0036-8075 ; online ISSN 1095-9203
YR 2017
FD 2017-02-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18498
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18498
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
NO Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)
NO Humboldt Foundation (Germany)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 26 abr 2025