Macroevolution and Paleobiology of Mammals
This research topic focuses on the evolution and ecology of large mammals through the Cenozoic until today. Here, we bring together paleontological and geological data on past environmental conditions and extinct species with present-day data on the current environment and living species.
Recent work has focussed on the excellent fossil record of large mammals in the Northern Hemisphere, contrasting the Neogene (approximately 23-2 million years ago) to today. Such comparisons enable us to assess the stability of ecological relationships over geological timescales, to understand the evolutionary history underlying present-day diversity, and to generate a deep-time baseline for measuring the consequences of ongoing and future biodiversity loss. We also work with geoscientists to investigate how large-scale diversity patterns change over millions of years and how these changes are affected by abiotic drivers, in particular mountain building and climate change.
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