New Study Shows Effects of Prehistoric Nocturnal Life on Mammalian Vision
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 16:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A new anthropology study from UT-Austin is the first to provide a large-scale body of evidence for the "nocturnal bottleneck theory," which suggests that mammalian sensory traits have been profoundly influenced by an extended period of adaptation to nocturnality during the Mesozoic Era.