That placental development was so far along ... All this done by the most intelligent of mammals. Evolution has given us this gift of intelligence, but are we too smart for our own good?

Australia and South America were isolated from other continents during much of the Tertiary, and marsupial mammals thrived and diversified there, while placental mammals took over similar roles on ...

Major achievement of mammals is refinement of viviparity, made possible by the evolution of the placenta in therians. Placenta is not unique to mammals. Certain fish and reptiles have placenta-like ...

The bigger a mammal’s brain evolves to be, the greater selective force is placed on the placenta to acquire energy for the growth of the embryo, which, naturally, drives the evolution of an ever ...

They found that a small, furry, insectivorous mammal was the common ancestor of all placental mammals, including humans. Fossil evidence suggested that the group to which this animal belonged was the ...

Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary ... Around 20% of synonymous sites are conserved in placental mammal genomes, but the evolutionary forces determining this is unclear.

This question is of central importance to Biological Anthropology - the study of primate adaptation and evolution ... are essentially "average" for placental mammals of comparable body mass.

Around 100 million years ago, a remarkable evolutionary shift allowed placental mammals to diversify and ... the role of brown fat in mammalian evolution, endothermy, and metabolism.

If the Richs are correct, then our understanding of how placental mammals arose and ... But, for the first 160 million years of their evolution, mammals remained as small, insignificant underlings ...

Trekking into the outback west of Sydney, Australia, Darwin is struck by how different the marsupials here are to the placental mammals of Europe. He gets a close look at the anatomy of a rat ...

These studies are being conducted in collaboration with Cris Sandoval, Tanja Schwander and Patrik Nosil. We are studying the evolution of maternal-fetal conflict over resources in mammals, via ...