Temporal Niche Expansion In Mammals From A Nocturnal Ancestor After Dinosaur Extinction
R. Maor, T. Dayan, H. Ferguson-Gow, K. Jones
The paper reconstructs ancestral activity patterns in mammals using a large dataset, finding support for a nocturnal origin and the emergence of diurnality in the Cenozoic.
bioRxiv · Apr 2, 2017Evolutionary Biology