Evolution - Warm-hearted crocs

被引：18
|
作者：
Summers, AP [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
来源：
NATURE | 2005年 / 434卷 / 7035期
关键词：
Natural sciences - Physiology;
D O I：
10.1038/434833a
中图分类号：
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要：
Our ideas about how crocodiles evolved have just taken a battering. It seems that these cold-blooded creatures, with their limited capacity for prolonged activity, might have had active, warm-blooded ancestors.
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