Searching for principles of skull organization in macroevolution using birds as model systems. Jesús Marugán-Lobón. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Título: Searching for principles of skull organization in macroevolution using birds as model systems

Ponente: Jesús Marugán-Lobón, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Presentado por: David Buckley, Dpto. Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, MNCN-CSIC

Resumen:

The skull is highly integrated and highly modular, but can the skull itself be viewed as a module? And what would the conceptual consequences be if it proves to be the case? I will show a suite of results from our year-long research program in avian skull variation with which we envision a future prospect to aim at both disentangling further the organizing principles of skull morphology in vertebrate macroevolution and to conceptually interpret its evolutionary significance.

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