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One hundred randomly evolving populations on an adaptive landscape.

From Polly, P. D. 2004. On the simulation of the evolution of morphological shape: multivariate shape under selection and drift. Palaeontologia Electronica, 7.2.7A: 28pp, 2.3MB.


 

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2011

Lawing, A. M. and P.D. Polly.  2011.  Pleistocene climate, phylogeny, and climate envelope models: an integrative approach to better understand species' response to climate change.  PLoS ONE, 16: e28554
[PDF] [Online animated models of geographic distributions]

Polly, P.D., J.T. Eronen, M. Fred, G.P. Dietl, V. Mosbrugger, C. Scheidegger, D.C. Frank, J. Damuth, N.C. Stenseth & M. Fortelius. 2011. History matters: ecometrics and integrative climate change biology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 278: 1121-1130. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2233
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Polly, P.D. and J.T. Eronen.  2011.  Mammal associations in the Pleistocene of Britain:  implications of ecological niche modelling and a method for reconstrucing palaeoclimate. Pp. 279-304 in N. Ashton, S. G. Lewis, and C. Stringer (eds.), The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain.  Elsevier.
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Gómez-Robles, A. and P. D. Polly. Accepted article. Morphological integration in the hominin dentition: evolutionary, developmental, and functional factors. Evolution, doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01508.x
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Polly, P.D. and C.B. Stringer.  2011.  The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) Database.  In R. Macchiarelli and G-C. Weniger (ed.) Pleistocene Databases: Acquisition, Storing, SharingWissenschaftliche Schriften des Neanderthal Museums, 4: 51-60.
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Polly, P.D., L. Killick, M. Ruddy.  2011. Using left-right asymmetry to estimate non-genetic variability in vole teeth (Arvicolinae, Muridae, Rodentia).  Palaeontologia Electronica, 14.3.41A.
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Johnson, L.J., J.A. Cotton, C.P. Lichtenstein, G.S. Elgar, R.A. Nichols, P.D. Polly, and S.C. Le Comber. 2011.  Stops making sense: translational trade-offs and stop codon reassignment.  BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11: 227.  doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-227
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Bose, R., C. L. Schneider, L. R. Leighton, and P. D. Polly. 2011. Influence of atrypid morphological shape on Devonian episkeletobiont assemblages from the lower Genshaw Formation of the Traverse Group of Michigan: a geometric morphometric approach. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 310: 427-441.
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Ksepka, D.T., M.J. Benton, M.T.Carrano, M.A. Gandolfo, J.J. Head, E.J. Hermsen, W.G. Joyce, K.S. Lamm, J.S.L. Patané, M.J. Phillips, P.D. Polly, J.L. Ware, R.C.M. Warnock, M. van Tuinen, and J.F. Parham.  2011.  Synthesizing and databasing fossil calibrations: divergence dating and beyond.  Biology Letters, doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0356.
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2010

Polly, P.D.  2010. Tiptoeing through the trophics: geographic variation in carnivoran locomotor ecomorphology in relation to environment.  Pp. 374-410 in A. Goswami and A. Friscia (eds.), Carnivoran Evolution: New Views on Phylogeny, Form, and Function.
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Eronen, J.T., P.D. Polly, M. Fred, J. Damuth, D.C. Frank, V. Mosbrugger, C. Scheidegger, N.C. Stenseth, and M. Fortelius. 2010. Ecometrics: The traits that bind the past and present together.Integrative Zoology, 5: 88-101.
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Goswami, A. and P.D. Polly. 2010 . Methods for studying morphological integration, modularity and covariance evolution. Pp. 213-243 in J. Alroy and G. Hunt (eds.), Quantitative Methods in Paleobiology. Paleontological Society Short Course, October 30th, 2010. The Paleontological Society Papers, Volume 16.
[PDF] [see Software page for accompanying Mathematica add-in]

Goswami, A. and P.D. Polly. 2010. Modularity constrains morphological evolution in the placental mammal skull. Pp. 141-164 in A. Goswami and A. Friscia (eds.), Carnivoran Evolution: New Views on Phylogeny, Form, and Function. Cambridge University Press.
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Goswami, A. and P. D. Polly. 2010. The influence of modularity on cranial morphological disparity in Carnivora and Primates (Mammalia). PLoS One, 5, e9517: 1-8
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Lawing, A.M. and P.D. Polly. 2010. Geometric morphometrics:  recent applications to the study of evolution and development.  Journal of Zoology, 280: 1-7
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Cardini, A., S. Elton, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho, and P.D. Polly. 2010. Spatial data analysis and ecomorphology using geometric morphometrics: clines in skull size and shape in a widespread African arboreal monkey. Pp. 191-217 in A.M.T. Elewa (ed), Morphometrics for Nonmorphometricians, Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, Volume 124. Springer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
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Bose, R., C. Schneider, P. D. Polly, and M. M. Yacobucci. 2010. Ecological Interactions between Rhipidomella (Orthides, Brachiopoda) and its endoskeletobionts and predators in the Middle Devonian Dundee Formation of Ohio, USA. Palaios, 25: 196-208.
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Poroshin, E.A., P.D. Polly, and J.M. Wójcik.  2010.  Climate and morphological change on decadal scales:  Multiannual variation in the common shrew (Sorex araneus L.) in northeast Russia.  Acta Theriologica, 55: 193-202.
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2009

Head, J.J., J.I. Bloch, A.K. Hastings, J.R. Bourque, E. Cadena, F. Herrera, P.D. Polly, and C.A. Jaramillo.  2009.  Giant boine snake from a Paleocene Neotropical rainforest indicates hotter past equatorial temperatures.  Nature, 457: 715-718. 
[Paper] [Supplementary Information] [Matt Huber's News & Views]

Cardini A., D. Nagorsen, P. O'Higgins, P.D. Polly, R.W. Thorington Jr., and P. Tongiorgi. 2009. Detecting biological distinctiveness using geometric morphometrics: an example case from the Vancouver Island marmot. Ethology, Ecology and Evolution, 21: 209-223.
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Schutz, H., P.D. Polly, J.D. Krieger and R.P. Guralnick.  2009.  Differential sexual dimorphism of body regions:  a case study examining the cranium and pelvis of Gray foxes (Urocyon).  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 96: 339-353.
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2008

Polly, P. D. 2008. Adaptive Zones and the Pinniped Ankle: A 3D Quantitative Analysis of Carnivoran Tarsal Evolution.  Pp. 165-194 in (E. Sargis and M. Dagosto, Eds.) Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay.  Springer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
[PDF] [PowerPoint file with animated figures]

Polly, P.D.  2008.  Developmental dynamics and G-matrices:  Can morphometric spaces be used to model evolution and development?  Evolutionary Biology, 35. DOI 10.1007/s11692-008-9020-0.
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Atar, M., R. Yasmin, R. Sharma, S.C. Le Comber, P. Verry, and P.D. Polly.  2008.  Of mice and mutations:  phenotypic effects of the diabetic db/db and ob/ob mutations on the skull and teeth of mice.  European Archives of Paediatric Dentistry, 9: 37-40.
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Polly, P.D. and N. Macleod..  2008.  Locomotion in fossil carnivora: an application of eigensurface analysis for morphometric comparison of 3D surfaces. Palaeontologia Electronica, 11.2.8A.
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2007

Polly, P.D.  2007.  Development with a Bite.  News & Views.  Nature, 449: 413-415.
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Gündüz, İ, M Jaarola, C. Tez, C. Yeniyurt, P.D. Polly, and J. B. Searle.  2007.  Spermophilus taurensis Günduz et al. 2007 and S. torosensis Özkurt et al., 2007 (Scuiridae, Rodentia) are synonyms for the same species of Ground squirrel from the Taurus Mountains of southern Turkey.  Zootaxa, 1663: 67-68.
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Cardini, A., R.W. Thorington, Jr., and P.D. Polly.  2007.  Evolutionary acceleration in the most endangered mammal of Canada: speciation and divergence in the Vancouver Island marmot (Rodentia, Sciuridae).  Journal of Evolutionary Biology20: 1833-1846.
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Head, J.J. and P.D. Polly. 2007.  Dissociation of somatic growth from segmentation drives gigantism in snakes.  Biology Letters, 3: 296-298.
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Gündüz, İ, M Jaarola, C. Tez, C. Yeniyurt, P.D. Polly, and J. B. Searle.  2007.  Multigenic and morphometric differentiation of ground squirrels (Spermophilus, Scuiridae, Rodentia) in Anatolia, with a description of a new species.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 43: 916-935.
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Polly, P. D. 2007. Phylogeographic differentiation in Sorex araneus: morphology in relation to geography and karyotype. Russian Journal of Theriology, 6: 73-84.
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Polly, P. D. 2007. Limbs in mammalian evolution. Chapter 15, pp. 245-268, in Fins into Limbs: Evolution, Development, and Transformation, Brian K Hall (ed.). University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
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Wójcik, J. M., P. D. Polly, A. M. Wójcik, and M. D. Sikorski.  2007.  Epigenetic variation of the common shrew, Sorex araneus, in different habitats.  Russian Journal of Theriology, 6: 43-49.
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2006

Polly, P. D., G. D. Wesley-Hunt, R. E. Heinrich, G. Davis, and P. Houde. 2006. Earliest known carnivoran auditory bulla and support for a recent origin of crown-group Carnivora (Eutheria, Mammalia). Palaeontology, 49: 1019-1027.
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Polly, P.D. 2006. Genetics, development, and palaeontology interlock. Heredity, 96: 206-207.
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Wójcik, A. M., P. D. Polly, M. D. Sikorski, and J. M. Wójcik. 2006. Selection in a cycling population: differential response among skeletal traits. Evolution, 60: 1925-1935.
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Rychlik, L., G. Ramalhinho, and P. D. Polly. 2006. Response to competition and environmental factors: skull, mandible, and tooth shape in Polish Water shrews (Neomys, Soricidae, Mammalia). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 44: 339-351.
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2005

Caumul, R. and P. D. Polly. 2005. Phylogenetic and environmental components of morphological variation: skull, mandible and molar shape in marmots (Marmota, Rodentia). Evolution, 59: 2460-2472.
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Polly, P.D. 2005. Development, Geography, and Sample Size in P matrix evolution: molar-shape change in island populations of Sorex araneus. Evolution and Development, 7(1): 29-41.
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Polly, P.D., S.C. Le Comber, and T.M. Burland. 2005. On the occlusal fit of tribosphenic molars: Are we underestimating species diversity in the Mesozoic? Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 12: 285-301.
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2004

Polly, P. D. 2004. On the simulation of the evolution of morphological shape: multivariate shape under selection and drift. Palaeontologia Electronica, 7.2.7A: 28pp, 2.3MB. http://palaeo-electronica.org/2004_2/evo/issue2_04.htm
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Polly, P. D. and J. J. Head. 2004. Maximum-likelihood identification of fossils: taxonomic identification of Quaternary marmots (Rodentia, Mammalia) and identification of vertebral position in the pipesnake Cylindrophis (Serpentes, Reptilia). In: Elewa A. M. T. (ed.): Morphometrics-Applications in Biology and Paleontology. Springer-Verlag: Heidelberg, Germany. Pp. 197-222.
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2003

Polly, P. D. 2003. Paleophylogeography of Sorex araneus: molar shape as a morphological marker for fossil shrews. Mammalia, 68: 233-243.
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Polly, P. D. 2003. Paleophylogeography: the tempo of geographic differentiation in marmots (Marmota). Journal of Mammalogy, 84: 369-384.
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2002

Polly, P. D. and R. L. Spang.  2002.  History of paleontology.  Pp. 69-97 in B. S. Baigrie (ed.), History of Modern Science and Mathematics, Vol. 4, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York.
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Polly, P. D. 2002. Phylogenetic tests for differences in shape and the importance of divergence times: Eldredge's enigma explored. In: N. MacLeod and P. Forey (eds.), Morphology, Shape, and Phylogenetics, Taylor and Francis, Inc., pp. 220-246.
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2001

Polly, P. D. 2001. Paleontology and the comparative method: Ancestral node reconstructions versus observed node values. American Naturalist, 157: 596-609.
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Polly, P. D. 2001. On morphological clocks and paleophylogeography: Towards a timescale for Sorex hybrid zones. Genetica, 112/113: 339-357.
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Polly, P. D., J. J. Head, and M. J. Cohn. 2001. Testing modularity and dissociation: the evolution of regional proportions in snakes (Serpentes, Vertebrata), pp. 305-335 in: M. Zelditch (ed.), Beyond Heterochrony: The Evolution of Development. John Wiley & Sons.
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Kordikova, E. G., P. D. Polly, V. A. Alifanov, Z. Rocek, G. F. Gunnell, and A. O Averianov. 2001. Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary microvertebrates from the North Eastern Aral Sea Region of Kazakhstan. Journal of Paleontology, 75: 390-400.
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2000

Polly, P. D. 2000. Development and evolution occlude: evolution of development in mammalian teeth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 97: 14019-14021. [PDF]

Mathur, A. K. and P. D. Polly. 2000. The evolution of enamel microstructure: How important is amelogenin? Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 7: 23-42.
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1999

Polly, P. D.  1999.  Selection. In: R. Springer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Paleontology.  Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, pp. 1084-1086.

Polly, P. D.  1999.  Johannes T. Schmalhausen.  In: R. Springer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Paleontology.  Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, pp. 1068-1069.

Polly, P. D.  1999.  Ivan I. Schmalhausen. In: R. Springer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Paleontology.  Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, pp. 1069-1070.

Polly, P. D.  1999.  Creodonta.  In: R. Springer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Paleontology.  Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, pp. 316-317.

Polly, P. D.  1999.  Alpheus Hyatt.  In: R. Springer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Paleontology.  Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, pp. 591-59.

1998

Polly, P. D. 1998. Cope's Rule. Science, 282(5386): 50-51.
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Polly, P. D. 1998. Variability, selection, and constraints: development and evolution in viverravid (Carnivora, Mammalia) molar morphology. Paleobiology, 24: 409-429.
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Polly, P. D. 1998. Variability in mammalian dentitions: size-related bias in the coefficient of variation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 64: 83-99.
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Polly, P. D.  1998.  Cope’s Rule.  Science, 282(5386):  50-51.

1997

Polly, P. D.  1997.  Ancestry and species definition in paleontology: a stratocladistic analysis of Viverravidae (Carnivora, Mammalia) from Wyoming.  Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan30: 1-53.
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Polly, P. D.  1997.  Cross-domain database searching at The Natural History Museum.  ASLIB Handbook of Special Librarianship and Information Work, 7th Edition, pp. 441-448.

1996

Polly, P. D.  1996.  The skeleton of Gazinocyon vulpeculus n. gen. and comb. (Hyaenodontidae, Creodonta) and the cladistic relationships of Hyaenodontidae (Eutheria, Mammalia).  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16: 303-319.
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Holroyd, P. A., E. L. Simons, T. M. Bown, P. D. Polly, and M. J. Krause.  1996.  New Records of Terrestrial Mammals from the Upper Eocene Qasr El Sagha Formation, Fayum Depression, Egypt.  Palaeovertebrata, 25: 175-192.
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1994

Padian, K., D. Lindberg, and P. D. Polly.  1994.  Cladistics and the fossil record: the uses of history.  Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 22: 63-91.
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1993

Polly, P. D. and B. Lange-Badré.  1993.  A new genus Eurotherium (Mammalia, Creodonta) in reference to taxonomic problems with some Eocene hyaenodontids from Eurasia.  Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences (Paris), série II, 317: 991-996.
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Polly, P. D.  1993.  Hyaenodontidae (Creodonta, Mammalia) from the early Eocene Four Mile Fauna and their biostratigraphic implications.  PaleoBios, 14(4): 1-10.
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