Diverge modular evolution of mammalian middle ear and lower jaw

• 来源期刊: 中国科学基金（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（1）
• 页码范围: 9
• 页数: 1页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences,in a study published in Science (2020,367:305-308),Dr.Mao FangYuan (毛方园) and colleagues from the Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins,Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,together with the American Museum of Natural History,New York,reported a new Early Cretaceous stem therian mammal and proposed the modular decoupling of the hearing and chewing apparatuses,a key evolutionary event that had potentially played a critical role in evolution of mammals.