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The nocturnal bottleneck and the evolution of activity patterns in mammals.
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In 1942, Walls described the concept of a 'nocturnal bottleneck' in placental mammals, where these species could survive only by avoiding daytime activity during times in which dinosaurs were the dominant taxon. Walls based this concept of a longer episode of nocturnality in early eutherian mammals by comparing the visual systems of reptiles, birds and all three extant taxa of the mammalian lineage, namely the monotremes, marsupials (now included in the metatherians) and placentals (included ...
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- Published
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- Journal:
- Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society
- Volume:
- 280
- Issue:
- 1765
- Pages:
- 20130508
- Publication date:
- 2013-08-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2954
- ISSN:
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0962-8452
- Source identifiers:
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411135
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- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-17
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- 2013
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