Bibliographic record
Abstract
This book presents a collection of paleontological perspectives on the origin and evolution of herbivory in various major taxa of terrestrial vertebrates. The complex interactions between plants and their animal consumers have long been the subject of much interest to evolutionary biologists. At the same time, most studies exploring coevolutionary relationships have focused on extant organisms, and generally little attention has been paid to the historical development of plant–animal interactions through time documented by the fossil record. Most contributors to this volume review the nature and acquisition of structural features of the skull and dentition suitable for feeding on high fiber plant material in various major lineages of herbivorous tetrapods. In some instances, they also discuss other lines of evidence (such as isotopic data) bearing on this issue as well as the possible impact of herbivory on the evolutionary diversification of that group. Traditionally, paleobiological studies have assumed a direct relationship between form and function, but current research on the functional morphology of extinct organisms is much more mindful of the inherent theoretical and practical difficulties in reconstructing the habits of ancient organisms. The present volume cannot and does not provide a comprehensive account of herbivory in extinct vertebrates. Rather, it is intended as a review of current research on some of the key issues for advanced students of evolutionary biology, historical ecology, and paleobiology and, it is to be hoped, as a stimulus for further work. Most chapters are based on contributions presented at a symposium on the evolution of herbivory in insects and terrestrial vertebrates held during the Sixth North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC-96) at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. in June 1996.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.527 | 0.330 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".