Ryan N. Felice

This study examines the co-evolution of neck, head, and forelimb traits in theropods and birds, finding adaptive shifts and reduced evolutionary rates in birds.

This study investigates trade-offs in avian cranial evolution by analyzing correlations between hard and soft tissue traits using statistical models.

This study reconstructs the evolutionary changes in tetrapod mandible structure across 3047 species, finding rapid canalization of jaw morphology at key clades and a decrease in compositional disparity over time.

This study models brain size-dependent diversification rates in birds, finding that larger brains reduce extinction rates, supporting the cognitive buffer hypothesis.

This study investigates factors influencing cervical vertebrae morphology in parrots, finding that phylogeny, allometry, integration, diet, and tripedal locomotion significantly affect shape, but diet and locomotion have weak influences with high morphospace overlap.

This study examines evolutionary trends in tetrapod mandibles, finding that neither Willistons law of simplification nor Dollos law of irreversibility holds, as jaw complexity and component gains/losses are not consistently decreasing or irreversible.