Lilliput effect
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The Lilliput effect is a decrease in body size in animal species which have survived a major extinction. There are several hypotheses as to why these patterns appear in the fossil record, some of which are: the survival of small taxa, dwarfing of larger lineages, and the evolutionary miniaturization from larger ancestral stocks. The term was coined in 1993 by Adam Urbanek in his paper concerning the extinction of graptoloids and is derived from the island of Lilliput inhabited by a miniature race of people in Gulliver’s Travels. This size decrease may just be a temporary phenomenon restricted to the survival period of the extinction event. In 2019 Atkinson et al. coined the term the to describe a related phenomenon operating in the opposite direction, whereby new species evolving after th
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O efeito Lilliput é uma diminuição no tamanho do corpo em espécies animais que sobreviveram a uma grande extinção. O termo foi cunhado em 1993 por Adam Urbanek em seu artigo sobre a extinção de graptolóides.
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Lilliput effect
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Efeito Lilliput
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The Lilliput effect is a decrease in body size in animal species which have survived a major extinction. There are several hypotheses as to why these patterns appear in the fossil record, some of which are: the survival of small taxa, dwarfing of larger lineages, and the evolutionary miniaturization from larger ancestral stocks. The term was coined in 1993 by Adam Urbanek in his paper concerning the extinction of graptoloids and is derived from the island of Lilliput inhabited by a miniature race of people in Gulliver’s Travels. This size decrease may just be a temporary phenomenon restricted to the survival period of the extinction event. In 2019 Atkinson et al. coined the term the to describe a related phenomenon operating in the opposite direction, whereby new species evolving after the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction originated at small body sizes before undergoing a size increase. The term is also from Gulliver’s Travels where Brobnignag is a land inhabited by a race of giants.
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O efeito Lilliput é uma diminuição no tamanho do corpo em espécies animais que sobreviveram a uma grande extinção. O termo foi cunhado em 1993 por Adam Urbanek em seu artigo sobre a extinção de graptolóides. Existem várias hipóteses sobre por que esses padrões aparecem no registro fóssil, alguns dos quais são: a sobrevivência de pequenos táxons, o nanismo de linhagens maiores e a miniaturização evolutiva de estoques ancestrais maiores. Os cientistas acreditam que esse efeito Lilliput foi um precursor da extinção posterior dos animais cerca de 183 milhões de anos atrás, durante o período conhecido como Toarciano.
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