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  1. An enduring palaeontological riddle: how many hippopotamid species roamed Sicily? The case study of Amoroso Cave
  2. Strong evidence for the evolution of decreasing compositional heterogeneity in SARS-CoV-2 genomes during the pandemic
  3. RRphylogeography: A new method to find the area of origin of species and the history of past contacts between species
  4. Cortical areas associated to higher cognition drove primate brain evolution
  5. EutherianCoP. An integrated biotic and climate database for conservation paleobiology based on eutherian mammals
  6. An accelerating, decreasing phylogenetic trend in SARS-CoV-2 genome compositional heterogeneity during the pandemic
  7. Phylogenetic Analysis of 590 Species Reveals Distinct Evolutionary Patterns of Intron–Exon Gene Structures Across Eukaryotic Lineages
  8. Past climate change effects on human evolution
  9. RRmorph—a new R package to map phenotypic evolutionary rates and patterns on 3D meshes
  10. Modelling reveals the effect of climate and land use change on Madagascar’s chameleons fauna
  11. Protecting stable biological nomenclatural systems enables universal communication: A collective international appeal
  12. Phase synchronization between culture and climate forcing
  13. Virtual reconstruction of the Canis arnensis type (Canidae, Mammalia) from the Upper Valdarno Basin (Italy, Early Pleistocene)
  14. Morphometric changes in Watznaueria barnesiae across the mid Cretaceous: Paleoecological implications
  15. Too much of a good thing? Supplementing current species observations with fossil data to assess climate change vulnerability via ecological niche models
  16. Conical and sabertoothed cats as an exception to craniofacial evolutionary allometry
  17. Climate shifts orchestrated hominin interbreeding events across Eurasia
  18. Human adaptation to diverse biomes over the past 3 million years
  19. ENphylo: A new method to model the distribution of extremely rare species
  20. Homo sapiens and Neanderthals share high cerebral cortex integration into adulthood
  21. Testing for changes in rate of evolution and position of the climatic niche of clades
  22. Trapped in the morphospace: The relationship between morphological integration and functional performance
  23. Paleomimetics: A Conceptual Framework for a Biomimetic Design Inspired by Fossils and Evolutionary Processes
  24. The emergence of variants with increased fitness accelerates the slowdown of genome sequence heterogeneity in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus
  25. One among many: the enigmatic case of the Miocene mammal, Kolponomos newportensis
  26. Climate effects on archaic human habitats and species successions
  27. Small brains predisposed Late Quaternary mammals to extinction
  28. Fast production of large, time‐calibrated, informal supertrees with tree.merger
  29. Human face‐off: a new method for mapping evolutionary rates on three‐dimensional digital models
  30. Adaptive trends of sequence compositional complexity over pandemic time in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus
  31. Morphometric Maps of Bilateral Asymmetry in the Human Humerus: An Implementation in the R Package Morphomap
  32. The role of habitat fragmentation in Pleistocene megafauna extinction in Eurasia
  33. Too simple models may predict the island rule for the wrong reasons
  34. A New Integrated Tool to Calculate and Map Bilateral Asymmetry on Three-Dimensional Digital Models
  35. Retrodeformation of the Steinheim Cranium: Insights into the Evolution of Neanderthals
  36. New Avenues for Old Travellers: Phenotypic Evolutionary Trends Meet Morphodynamics, and Both Enter the Global Change Biology Era
  37. Arothron: An R package for geometric morphometric methods and virtual anthropology applications
  38. Correction: A new, fast method to search for morphological convergence with shape data
  39. A method for mapping morphological convergence on three‐dimensional digital models: the case of the mammalian sabre‐tooth
  40. Testing the occurrence of convergence in the craniomandibular shape evolution of living carnivorans*
  41. Quantitative genetics of extreme insular dwarfing: The case of red deer on Jersey
  42. The influence of domestication, insularity and sociality on the tempo and mode of brain size evolution in mammals
  43. A Major Change in Rate of Climate Niche Envelope Evolution during Hominid History
  44. Editorial: Evolving Virtual and Computational Paleontology
  45. Past Extinctions of Homo Species Coincided with Increased Vulnerability to Climatic Change
  46. morphomap: An R package for long bone landmarking, cortical thickness, and cross‐sectional geometry mapping
  47. From Smart Apes to Human Brain Boxes. A Uniquely Derived Brain Shape in Late Hominins Clade
  48. Variation in the strength of allometry drives rates of evolution in primate brain shape
  49. Oichnus taddeii, a new fossil trace produced by capulids on brachiopod shells
  50. MInOSSE: A new method to reconstruct geographic ranges of fossil species
  51. Target Deformation of the Equus stenonis Holotype Skull: A Virtual Reconstruction
  52. Ancestral State Estimation with Phylogenetic Ridge Regression
  53. Locomotory Adaptations in 3D Humerus Geometry of Xenarthra: Testing for Convergence
  54. Decoupling Functional and Morphological Convergence, the Study Case of Fossorial Mammalia
  55. Current Options for Visualization of Local Deformation in Modern Shape Analysis Applied to Paleobiological Case Studies
  56. Endomaker, a new algorithm for fully automatic extraction of cranial endocasts and the calculation of their volumes
  57. A new, fast method to search for morphological convergence with shape data
  58. A 450 million years long latitudinal gradient in age‐dependent extinction
  59. Macroevolutionary trends of brain mass in Primates
  60. Macroevolution of Toothed Whales Exceptional Relative Brain Size
  61. Quantitative genetics of body size evolution on islands: an individual-based simulation approach
  62. Impact of transition to a subterranean lifestyle on morphological disparity and integration in talpid moles (Mammalia, Talpidae)
  63. A dynamic analysis of Middle Pleistocene human walking gait adjustment and control
  64. A New Tool for Digital Alignment in Virtual Anthropology
  65. Additive effects of climate change and human hunting explain population decline and extinction in cave bears
  66. Simultaneous detection of macroevolutionary patterns in phenotypic means and rate of change with and within phylogenetic trees including extinct species
  67. Multiple Components of Phylogenetic Non-stationarity in the Evolution of Brain Size in Fossil Hominins
  68. Anagenesis and Cladogenesis Are Useful Island Biogeography Terms
  69. Bacteria and parasites in Podarcis sicula and P. sicula klemmerii
  70. Using macroecological constraints on spatial biodiversity predictions under climate change: the modelling method matters
  71. The well-behaved killer: Late Pleistocene humans in Eurasia were significantly associated with living megafauna only
  72. MicroWeaR: A new R package for dental microwear analysis
  73. Unexpectedly rapid evolution of mandibular shape in hominins
  74. Evolution of the sabertooth mandible: A deadly ecomorphological specialization
  75. Fragmentation of Neanderthals' pre-extinction distribution by climate change
  76. Reproducing the internal and external anatomy of fossil bones: Two new automatic digital tools
  77. Who is the most stressed? Morphological disparity and mechanical behavior of the feeding apparatus of ceratopsian dinosaurs (Ornithischia, Marginocephalia)
  78. A new method for testing evolutionary rate variation and shifts in phenotypic evolution
  79. Diversification Rates and the Evolution of Species Range Size Frequency Distribution
  80. The evolution of cranial base and face in Cercopithecoidea and Hominoidea: Modularity and morphological integration
  81. Living with the elephant in the room: Top-down control in Eurasian large mammal diversity over the last 22 million years
  82. Does the jack of all trades fare best? Survival and niche width in Late Pleistocene megafauna
  83. Conservation of salamanders in managed forests: Methods and costs of monitoring abundance and habitat selection
  84. Island Rule, quantitative genetics and brain–body size evolution in Homo floresiensis
  85. A New Statistical Approach for Landslide Susceptibility Assessment in the Urban Area of Napoli (Italy)
  86. The influence of climate on species distribution over time and space during the late Quaternary
  87. Like a pig out of water: seaborne spread of domestic pigs in Southern Italy and Sardinia during the Bronze and Iron Ages
  88. Predicted sea-level changes and evolutionary estimates for age of isolation in Central Mediterranean insular lizards
  89. Late Quaternary reptile extinctions: size matters, insularity dominates
  90. Progress to extinction: increased specialisation causes the demise of animal clades
  91. From Evolutionary Allometry to Sexual Display: (A Reply to Holman and Bro-Jørgensen)
  92. Venturing out safely: The biogeography of Homo erectus dispersal out of Africa
  93. Macroevolution
  94. The conceptual framework of ontogenetic trajectories: parallel transport allows the recognition and visualization of pure deformation patterns
  95. Phylogenetic fields through time: temporal dynamics of geographical co-occurrence and phylogenetic structure within species ranges
  96. Modeling the Population-Level Processes of Biodiversity Gain and Loss at Geological Timescales
  97. Space and time: The two dimensions of Artiodactyla body mass evolution
  98. Analysis of Heavy Metal Sources for Urban Creeks in the Czech Republic
  99. Size matters: A comparative analysis of pig domestication
  100. Cope’s Rule and the Universal Scaling Law of Ornament Complexity
  101. Ecomorphology of Carnivora challenges convergent evolution
  102. Chewing on the trees: Constraints and adaptation in the evolution of the primate mandible
  103. Wild boars’ social structure in the Mediterranean habitat
  104. Morphological integration and functional modularity in the crocodilian skull
  105. Seeing through the skin: dermal light sensitivity provides cryptism in moorish gecko
  106. The number of competitor species is unlinked to sexual dimorphism
  107. Evolution of Neogene Mammals in Eurasia: Environmental Forcing and Biotic Interactions
  108. A new sphenodontian (Reptilia, Lepidosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Southern Italy and the phylogenetic affinities of the Pietraroia Plattenkalk rhynchocephalians
  109. Ecogeographical variation in skull morphometry of howler monkeys (Primates: Atelidae)
  110. The Evolution of Large Mammal Communities: Beyond Biochronology
  111. Is the island rule general? Turtles disagree
  112. Index
  113. Darwinian shortfalls in biodiversity conservation
  114. A Dysfunctional Sense of Smell: The Irreversibility of Olfactory Evolution in Free-Living Pigs
  115. Ecogeographical variation in skull shape of capuchin monkeys
  116. Bite of the Cats: Relationships between Functional Integration and Mechanical Performance as Revealed by Mandible Geometry
  117. In and Out the Amazonia: Evolutionary Ecomorphology in Howler and Capuchin Monkeys
  118. The study of ontogenetic trajectory reveals the timing of reproductive events inAncylus fluviatilis(Gastropoda: Planorbidae)
  119. Rapid action in the Palaeogene, the relationship between phenotypic and taxonomic diversification in Coenozoic mammals
  120. Physiological change in an insular lizard population confirms the reversed island syndrome
  121. The island syndrome in lizards
  122. Ecological Specialization in Fossil Mammals Explains Cope’s Rule
  123. Phylogenetic signal, function and integration in the subunits of the carnivoran mandible
  124. Habitat tracking, stasis and survival in Neogene large mammals
  125. Longer in the tooth, shorter in the record? The evolutionary correlates of hypsodonty in Neogene ruminants
  126. THE TEMPO AND MODE OF EVOLUTION: BODY SIZES OF ISLAND MAMMALS
  127. TheGavialis–Tomistomadebate: the contribution of skull ontogenetic allometry and growth trajectories to the study of crocodylian relationships
  128. Cats and Dogs Down the Tree: The Tempo and Mode of Evolution in the Lower Carnassial of Fossil and Living Carnivora
  129. The blue lizard spandrel and the island syndrome
  130. Slaying dragons: limited evidence for unusual body size evolution on islands
  131. Bioerosion structures and their distribution on shells of the Lower Pleistocene terebratulid brachiopod Gryphus minor
  132. One size does not fit all: no evidence for an optimal body size on islands
  133. Species accumulation over space and time in European Plio-Holocene mammals
  134. PHYLOGENETIC COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY OVER TIME IN EURASIAN PLIO-PLEISTOCENE MAMMALS
  135. Reptilian all the way?
  136. Ecophenotypic variation and phylogenetic inheritance in first lower molar shape of extant Italian populations of Microtus (Terricola) savii (Rodentia)
  137. THE SHAPE OF CONTENTION: ADAPTATION, HISTORY, AND CONTINGENCY IN UNGULATE MANDIBLES
  138. Occupancy, range size, and phylogeny in Eurasian Pliocene to Recent large mammals
  139. More than three million years of community evolution. The temporal and geographical resolution of the Plio-Pleistocene Western Eurasia mammal faunas
  140. Testing evolutionary stasis and trends in first lower molar shape of extinct Italian populations of Terricola savii (Arvicolidae, Rodentia) by means of geometric morphometrics
  141. The shape of the mandibular corpus in large fissiped carnivores: allometry, function and phylogeny
  142. Diversity and turnover of Plio-Pleistocene large mammal fauna from the Italian Peninsula
  143. Human influence on distribution and extinctions of the late Pleistocene Eurasian megafauna
  144. Inconstancy in predator/prey ratios in Quaternary large mammal communities of Italy, with an appraisal of mechanisms
  145. The Lower Cretaceous lizard genus Chometokadmon from Italy
  146. Bioerosion on Brachiopod Shells of a Thanatocoenosis of Alboràn Sea (Spain)
  147. THE ISLAND RULE IN LARGE MAMMALS: PALEONTOLOGY MEETS ECOLOGY
  148. Detection of Plio-Quaternary large mammal communities of Italy. An integration of fossil faunas biochronology and similarity
  149. THE ISLAND RULE IN LARGE MAMMALS: PALEONTOLOGY MEETS ECOLOGY
  150. Turnover pulse or Red Queen? Evidence from the large mammal communities during the Plio-Pleistocene of Italy
  151. Early-Middle Pleistocene structural changes in mammalian communities from the Italian peninsula
  152. Morphological correlates of tough food consumption in large land carnivores
  153. The fast life of a dwarfed giant