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Avian egg shape: Form, function, and evolution by Stoddard, Mary Caswell, Yong, Ee Hou, Akkaynak, Derya, Sheard, Catherine, Tobias, Joseph A., Mahadevan, L.

“…Avian egg shape is generally explained as an adaptation to life history, yet we currently lack a global synthesis of how egg-shape differences arise and…”
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Ecological drivers of global gradients in avian dispersal inferred from wing morphology by Sheard, Catherine, Neate-Clegg, Montague H. C., Alioravainen, Nico, Jones, Samuel E. I., Vincent, Claire, MacGregor, Hannah E. A., Bregman, Tom P., Claramunt, Santiago, Tobias, Joseph A.

“…An organism’s ability to disperse influences many fundamental processes, from speciation and geographical range expansion to community assembly. However, the…”
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Tempo and mode of morphological evolution are decoupled from latitude in birds by Drury, Jonathan P, Clavel, Julien, Tobias, Joseph A, Rolland, Jonathan, Sheard, Catherine, Morlon, Hélène

“…The latitudinal diversity gradient is one of the most striking patterns in nature, yet its implications for morphological evolution are poorly understood. In…”
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Territoriality, Social Bonds, and the Evolution of Communal Signaling in Birds by Tobias, Joseph A., Sheard, Catherine, Seddon, Nathalie, Meade, Andrew, Cotton, Alison J., Nakagawa, Shinichi

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Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations by Cooney, Christopher R., Sheard, Catherine, Clark, Andrew D., Healy, Susan D., Liker, András, Street, Sally E., Troisi, Camille A., Thomas, Gavin H., Székely, Tamás, Hemmings, Nicola, Wright, Alison E.

“…The duration of the developmental period represents a fundamental axis of life-history variation, yet broad insights regarding the drivers of this diversity…”
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Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology by Passmore, Sam, Barth, Wolfgang, Greenhill, Simon J, Quinn, Kyla, Sheard, Catherine, Argyriou, Paraskevi, Birchall, Joshua, Bowern, Claire, Calladine, Jasmine, Deb, Angarika, Diederen, Anouk, Metsäranta, Niklas P, Araujo, Luis Henrique, Schembri, Rhiannon, Hickey-Hall, Jo, Honkola, Terhi, Mitchell, Alice, Poole, Lucy, Rácz, Péter M, Roberts, Sean G, Ross, Robert M, Thomas-Colquhoun, Ewan, Evans, Nicholas, Jordan, Fiona M

“…For a single species, human kinship organization is both remarkably diverse and strikingly organized. Kinship terminology is the structured vocabulary used to…”
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The macroecological dynamics of species coexistence in birds by Pigot, Alex L., Jetz, Walter, Sheard, Catherine, Tobias, Joseph A.

“…Ecological communities are assembled from the overlapping of species in geographic space, but the mechanisms facilitating or limiting such overlaps are…”
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Ecological traits reveal functional nestedness of bird communities in habitat islands: a global survey by Matthews, Thomas J., Sheard, Catherine, Cottee-Jones, H. Eden W., Bregman, Tom P., Tobias, Joseph A., Whittaker, Robert J.

“…The widespread destruction and fragmentation of natural habitats around the world creates a strong incentive to understand how species and communities respond…”
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Tempo and timing of ecological trait divergence in bird speciation by McEntee, Jay P., Tobias, Joseph A., Sheard, Catherine, Burleigh, J. Gordon

“…Organismal traits may evolve either gradually or in rapid pulses, but the relative importance of these modes in the generation of species differences is…”
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Usage frequency and lexical class determine the evolution of kinship terms in Indo-European by Rácz, Péter, Passmore, Sam, Sheard, Catherine, Jordan, Fiona M

“…Languages do not replace their vocabularies at an even rate: words endure longer if they are used more frequently. This effect, which has parallels in…”
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Pama–Nyungan grandparent systems change with grandchildren, but not cross-cousin terms or social norms by Sheard, Catherine, Bowern, Claire, Dockum, Rikker, Jordan, Fiona M.

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Pama-Nyungan grandparent systems change with grandchildren, but not cross-cousin terms or social norms by Sheard, Catherine, Bowern, Claire, Dockum, Rikker, Jordan, Fiona M

“…Kinship is a fundamental and universal aspect of the structure of human society. The kinship category of 'grandparents' is socially salient, due to…”
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Professional medical writing support and the reporting quality of randomized controlled trial abstracts among high-impact general medical journals by Mills, Ira, Sheard, Catherine, Hays, Meredith, Douglas, Kevin, Winchester, Christopher C, Gattrell, William T

“…: In articles reporting randomized controlled trials, professional medical writing support is associated with increased adherence to Consolidated Standards of…”
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Global gaps in trait data for terrestrial vertebrates by Etard, Adrienne, Morrill, Sophie, Newbold, Tim, Sheard, Catherine

“…Aim Trait data are increasingly being used in studies investigating the impacts of global changes on the structure and functioning of ecological communities…”
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The Evolution of Rodent Tail Morphology by Sheard, Catherine, Skinner, Nina, Caro, Tim

“…AbstractPopulation-level variation in rodent tail structures has been variously attributed to facilitating social communication, locomotion, thermoregulation,…”
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The macroevolutionary dynamics of mammalian sexual size dimorphism by Jones, Megan E., Sheard, Catherine

“…Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) is a common phenomenon across the animal kingdom. Mammals are unusual in primarily displaying male-biased SSD, where males of a…”
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The evolution of enclosed nesting in passerines is shaped by competition, energetic costs, and predation threat by Vanadzina, Karina, Street, Sally E., Sheard, Catherine

“…Many avian species breed in enclosed nests that may provide better protection against predation and climatic conditions compared to open nests and are…”
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Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies by Ocampo, David, De Silva, Thilina N, Sheard, Catherine, Stoddard, Mary Caswell

“…Innovations in nest design are thought to be one potential factor in the evolutionary success of passerine birds (order: Passeriformes), which colonized new…”
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Aposematism in mammals by Howell, Natasha, Sheard, Catherine, Koneru, Manisha, Brockelsby, Kasey, Ono, Konatsu, Caro, Tim

“…Aposematic coloration is traditionally considered to signal unpalatability or toxicity. In mammals, most research has focused on just one form of defense,…”
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Primate coloration and colour vision: a comparative approach by Macdonald, Robert X, Sheard, Catherine, Howell, Natasha, Caro, Tim

“…Abstract Primates are remarkably colourful in comparison to other mammals. In particular, several species exhibit red–orange pelage or bright red skin, with…”
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