Juan L. Cantalapiedra

TL;DR: It is observed that ruminant faunas show a distribution mainly limited within the boundaries of their biogeographic realms, however, the diversifi cation of some clades was found to be restricted to extremely arid domains in the Sahara and Arabia.

TL;DR: The results offer model-based neontological support to previous palaeontological findings and fossil-based hypothesis highlighting the importance of dietary innovations—especially mixed feeding—in the success of ruminants during the Neogene.

TL;DR: It is shown that diversification pulses are a recurrent feature of equid evolution but that these pulses are not correlated with rapid bursts in phenotypic evolution, which suggests that diversity dynamics in Equinae were controlled mainly by ecological limits under diversity dependence rather than rapid ecomorphological differentiation.

TL;DR: It is found that, even after 25 years of academic research, the strength of evidence linking evolutionary history to human benefits is still fragile.

TL;DR: It is found that filter feeders and mesotherms deviate from general relationships between trophic level and body size, and exhibit significantly larger sizes than ectothermic‐macropredators.