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Feeding, a Tool to Understand Vertebrate Evolution Introduction to “Feeding in Vertebrates”

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Feeding in Vertebrates

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A major problem of evolution addressed by Darwin, in his Origin of Species (Darwin in On the origin of species. John Murray, London, 1859) is the evolutionary relationship between complex structures and their function, colloquially referred to as form–function relationships. Many of the insights that Darwin contributed to our conceptual framework of evolution are based on careful observations of traits in diverse fossil and extant vertebrates.

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Bels, V., Herrel, A. (2019). Feeding, a Tool to Understand Vertebrate Evolution Introduction to “Feeding in Vertebrates”. In: Bels, V., Whishaw, I. (eds) Feeding in Vertebrates. Fascinating Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13739-7_1

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