Why Did T Rex Have Such Tiny Arms?

Опубликовано 22 февраля 2017, 16:52

It's easy to assume that every trait - including stubby arms on a terrifying predator - must be beneficial, but the forces of evolution don't really work like that.

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- Evolutionary Mechanisms: Forces that change the frequency of genes in populations.
- Natural Selection: The process whereby traits that make animals more likely to survive and reproduce take hold in a population.
- Vestigiality: The process by which a genetically-determined structure loses some or all of its functionality.
- Genetic Drift: A change in the frequency of an allele due to random sampling.

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Switek, B. (2013). Paleontology: The Truth about the T. Rex 502 (424-426). Retrieved from: nature.com/news/palaeontology-...

E. Snively, A. P. Russell, G. L. Powell, J. M. Theodor & M.J.Ryan (2014). The role of the neck in the feeding behaviour of the Tyrannosauridae: inference based on kinematics and muscle function of extant avians. Journal of Zoology 292 (290-303). Retrieved from: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...

Middleton, K., and Gatesy, S. (2000) Theropod forelimb design and evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 128 (149-187). Retrieved from: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...

Lynch, M., Ackerman, M., Gout, J., Long, H., Sung, W., Thomas, W., and Foster, P. (2016). Genetic drift, selection and the evolution of the mutation rate. Nature Reviews: Genetics 17 (704-715). Retrieved from: nature.com/nrg/journal/v17/n11...