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| Título: | Cope’s rule and the universal scaling law of ornament complexity |
| Autor(es): | Raia, Pasquale Passaro, Federico Carotenuto, Francesco Maiorino, Leonardo Piras, Paolo Teresi, Luciano Meiri, Shai Itescu, Yuval Novosolov, Maria Baiano, Mattia Antonio Martínez, Ricardo Fortelius, Mikael |
| Fecha de publicación: | 27-feb-2015 |
| Citación: | Raia, Pasquale., Passaro, Federico., Carotenuto, Francesco., Maiorino, Leonardo., Piras, Paolo & et al. (2015). Cope’s rule and the universal scaling law of ornament complexity. University of Chicago. American Naturalist; 186; 2; 165-175 |
| Revista: | American Naturalist |
| Resumen: | Luxuriant, bushy antlers, bizarre crests, and huge, twisting horns and tusks are conventionally understood as products of sexual selection. This view stems from both direct observation and from the empirical finding that the size of these structures grows faster than body size (i.e., ornament size shows positive allometry).We contend that the familiar evolutionary increase in the complexity of ornaments over time in many animal clades is decoupled from ornament size evolution. Increased body size comes with extended growth. Since growth scales to the quarter power of body size, we predicted that ornament complexity should scale according to the quarter power law as well, irrespective of the role of sexual selection in the evolution and function of the ornament. To test this hypothesis, we selected three clades (ammonites, deer, and ceratopsian dinosaurs) whose species bore ornaments that differ in terms of the importance of sexual selection to their evolution.We found that the exponent of the regression of ornament complexity to body size is the same for the three groups and is statistically indistinguishable from0.25.We suggest that the evolution of ornament complexity is a by-product of Cope’s rule. We argue that although sexual selection may control size in most ornaments, it does not influence their shape. |
| URI: | https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/682011 http://hdl.handle.net/11336/55178 https://rid.unrn.edu.ar/jspui/handle/20.500.12049/2782 |
| Identificador DOI: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/682011 |
| ISSN: | 0003-0147 |
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