Submissions tagged with spandrels
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Insular gigantism and dwarfism in a snake, adaptive response or spandrel to selection on gape size?
In biology, spandrels are phenotypic traits that evolve through their underlying developmental, genetic, and/or structural links to another trait under selection1, 2, 3. Despite the importance of…
Received 22 June 2009 01:55 UTC; Posted 01 July 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
