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A discussion of “The Sloth’s Tale” in Richard Dawkins’ and Yan Wong’s book The Ancestor’s Tale. Mistake: I said elephant tusks are their canines. I meant to say incisors. My bad. All pictures are from Google.
“The Interrelationships of Placental Mammals and the Limits of Phylogenetic Inference”: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/8/2/330/2574016
“The Bonobo’s Tale”: youtu.be/cHJqPNwXsUU
“Mosaic retroposon insertion patterns in placental mammals”: genome.cshlp.org/content/19/5/868
“A new estimate of afrotherian phylogeny based on simultaneous analysis of genomic, morphological, and fossil evidence”: bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-7-224
“Afrotherian mammals: a review of current data”: degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/MAMM.2008.004/html
“Ocepeia (Middle Paleocene of Morocco): The Oldest Skull of an Afrotherian Mammal”: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0089739
“The Aye-Aye’s Tale”: youtu.be/2HFHcxmykOs
“Splitting Kinds”: youtu.be/DSn9Ny7P_JA
“Elephant Evolution”: youtu.be/YXOAbjEvCq0
“An Atlas of Phanerozoic Paleogeographic Maps: The Seas Come In and the Seas Go Out”: annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-earth-081320-064052
“An Atlas of Phanerozoic Paleogeographic Maps: Phanerozoic Dual Globes”: youtube.com/watch?v=ReVQv2g9WDM
“The Hippo’s Tale”: youtu.be/1DyECE_QkJ4
“The evolution of armadillos, anteaters and sloths depicted by nuclear and mitochondrial phylogenies: implications for the status of the enigmatic fossil Eurotamandua”: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2001.1702
“The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis”: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-009-9119-9
“Life on the Half-Shell: Consequences of a Carapace in the Evolution of Armadillos (Xenarthra: Cingulata)”: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-011-9166-x
“Megaichnus igen. nov.: Giant Paleoburrows Attributed to Extinct Cenozoic Mammals from South America”: https://repositorio.unesp.br/bitstream/handle/11449/162902/WOS000403834800004.pdf?sequence=1
“Prehistoric sloth extinctions in Cuba: Implications of a new “last” appearance date”: https://www.academia.edu/download/35661411/43_94-98.pdf
A discussion of “The Sloth’s Tale” in Richard Dawkins’ and Yan Wong’s book The Ancestor’s Tale. Mistake: I said elephant tusks are their canines. I meant to say incisors. My bad. All pictures are from Google.
“The Interrelationships of Placental Mammals and the Limits of Phylogenetic Inference”: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/8/2/330/2574016
“The Bonobo’s Tale”: youtu.be/cHJqPNwXsUU
“Mosaic retroposon insertion patterns in placental mammals”: genome.cshlp.org/content/19/5/868
“A new estimate of afrotherian phylogeny based on simultaneous analysis of genomic, morphological, and fossil evidence”: bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-7-224
“Afrotherian mammals: a review of current data”: degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/MAMM.2008.004/html
“Ocepeia (Middle Paleocene of Morocco): The Oldest Skull of an Afrotherian Mammal”: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0089739
“The Aye-Aye’s Tale”: youtu.be/2HFHcxmykOs
“Splitting Kinds”: youtu.be/DSn9Ny7P_JA
“Elephant Evolution”: youtu.be/YXOAbjEvCq0
“An Atlas of Phanerozoic Paleogeographic Maps: The Seas Come In and the Seas Go Out”: annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-earth-081320-064052
“An Atlas of Phanerozoic Paleogeographic Maps: Phanerozoic Dual Globes”: youtube.com/watch?v=ReVQv2g9WDM
“The Hippo’s Tale”: youtu.be/1DyECE_QkJ4
“The evolution of armadillos, anteaters and sloths depicted by nuclear and mitochondrial phylogenies: implications for the status of the enigmatic fossil Eurotamandua”: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2001.1702
“The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis”: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-009-9119-9
“Life on the Half-Shell: Consequences of a Carapace in the Evolution of Armadillos (Xenarthra: Cingulata)”: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10914-011-9166-x
“Megaichnus igen. nov.: Giant Paleoburrows Attributed to Extinct Cenozoic Mammals from South America”: https://repositorio.unesp.br/bitstream/handle/11449/162902/WOS000403834800004.pdf?sequence=1
“Prehistoric sloth extinctions in Cuba: Implications of a new “last” appearance date”: https://www.academia.edu/download/35661411/43_94-98.pdf
