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November 26, 2010

This research is described in the Nov. 26 issue of Science.

This research is detailed in "The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals," in the November 26, 2010 issue of the journal Science. The following researchers authored the paper: Felisa Smith (UNM), Alison Boyer (Yale), James Brown (UNM), Daniel Costa (UC Santa Cruz), Tamar Dayan (Tel-Aviv University, Israel), S.K. Morgan Ernest (Utah State University), Alistair Evans (Monash University, Australia), Mikael Fortelius (University of Helsinki, Sweden), John Gittleman (University of Georgia), Marcus Hamilton (UNM), Larisa Harding (Umea, Sweden), Kari Lintulaakso (University of Helsinki), S. Kathleen Lyons (Smithsonian Institution), Christy McCain (University of Colorado), Jordan Okie (UNM), Juha Saarinen (University of Helsinki), Richard Sibly (University of Reading, UK), Patrick Stephens (University of Georgia), Jessica Theodor (University of Calgary, BC), and Mark Uehn (George Mason University).

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