Robert Brocklehurst

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Postdoctoral researcher at UML | Vertebrate evolution | Form and function | he/ him

An artistic rendering of the theoretical "adaptive landscape" of posture evolution in mammals. Different taxa occupy distinct adaptive peaks associated with different postures (green - yellow = sprawling, orange = upright). Image credit to Magdalen Mercado.
A phylogeny of living and extinct tetrapods, showing the inferred evolution of forelimb posture in reptiles, salamanders, and mammals and their ancestors (green to yellow = sprawling, orange = upright). Illustrated with representative humeri (upper arm bones) from the study. Full figure and caption in the paper https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003188