Diversification of the ruminant skull—from microevolutionary processes to macroevolutionary patterns

Evolutionary biologists aim to form fundamental connections between microevolutionary processes and macroevolutionary patterns based on comparative datasets of population-level variation. In a new report on Science Advances, Daniel R. Rhoda and a team of scientists in evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago and the Jackson Laboratory in the U.S., analyzed a previously published dataset of ruminant (mammalian) crania.