Explore the marsupial placental dichotomy and how it influences mammalian brain size evolution and metabolic relationships. The evolution of mammalian brain size is directly linked with the evolution ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In contrast to placentals, marsupials are born with forelimbs that are greatly developmentally advanced relative to their hind limbs. Despite ...

Postcranial ossification sequences in 24 therian mammals and three outgroup taxa were obtained using clear staining and computed tomography to test the hypothesis that the marsupial forelimb is ...

What is a placental mammal? Learn more about placental mammals and how having a placenta may have been an evolutionary advantage for mammals. Placental mammals have a placenta, an organ that develops ...