Andossa Likius's research while affiliated with Académie Nationale de Médecine and other places

... O fêmur, para alguns, é similar aos dos chimpanzés, que obviamente não são bípedes (Macchiarelli et al., 2020), ao passo que para outros (Daver et al., 2022) ele era similar aos dos humanos atuais. Os ossos dos braços falam a favor de que era exímio trepador de árvores, como todos os primeiros hominínios até 2 milhões de anos, como já vimos (Daver et al., 2022). ...

... We find the TM 266 cranium and ulna fall securely within the expected size relationships between a given primate cranium and its associated ulna, strongly supporting that the fossils represent a single individual. The cranium was initially reported as a biped based on a set of hominin synapomorphies, including a shortened basioccipital, a relatively short premaxilla with no diastema, and a more anteriorly positioned foramen magnum Guy et al., 2005Guy et al., , 2020Zollikofer et al., 2005). The claim for bipedality was met with immediate pushback on the grounds that the interpretations were flawed; the highly distorted skull was reconstructed with a combination of a very large nuchal plane and an orthognathic face, a combination that is anatomically incongruous, and the foramen magnum position does not classify locomotion and posture across primates as this is dependent on evolutionary trends other than locomotion (Wolpoff et al., 2002(Wolpoff et al., , 2006Landi et al., 2020). ...

... or snake-birds (Aves, Suliformes, Anhingidae) are today represented by a single morphologically defined genus with two species (Beddard 1892, Harrison 1978, Brodkorb & Mourer-Chauviré 1982, Olson 1985, Becker 1986, 1987, Louchart et al. 2004, Worthy 2012: Anhinga anhinga Linnaeus, 1766 andA. melanogaster Pennant, 1769. ...

... Bilophodonty has been suggested to have originated in a seedeating context, with the lophs acting as wedges in the breakdown of very tough (Lucas and Teaford, 1994) and/or hard food items (Benefit, 1999). Molecular data suggest a final divergence between Colobus and Piliocolobus between 9.0 and 7.5 Ma (Roos and Zinner, 2022), roughly coinciding with an increase in leaf consumption for colobines in the Late Miocene (Pallas et al., 2019). Perhaps as these two genera diverged, selection acted to reduce flare in Piliocolobus, enhancing the shearing function of its molars (as per Shimizu, 2002). ...

... The relationship between ectotherm's growth and isolated biotic and abiotic factors has been largely studied in multiple fields, for instance, developmental biology (Green & Fisher, 2004), ecology (e.g., Beckman et al., 1998;Rosenfeld et al., 2005), development of animal resources (Boeuf & Payan, 2001;Deane & Woo, 2009;Norberg et al., 2001), and paleontology or archaeology, to interpret the growth of animals as a paleoenvironmental proxy (Lapalus et al., 2018). Fossil growth patterns can aid in the evaluation of paleoenvironmental seasonal fluctuations, which are an important component of climate effects on past continental ecosystems (e.g., Tonkin et al., 2017;White & Hastings, 2020). ...

... iScience Article Chad, 7 Ma. 88 Bonis et al. 88 noticed the similarity of their new genus to Yoshi and stated that Tchadailurus is different from Yoshi in smaller size, proportionally higher canine, and longer diastema. In other aspects, this genus is much like Yoshi and unlike other metailurine, in having a high crowned P3, without an anterior accessory cusp and a transversely elongated M1. ...

... Уже в конце плиоцена -начале плейстоцена в Африке, судя по всему, появляются представители рода Camelus, базальным видом которого является C. grattardi Geraads, 2014 (Geraads, 2014;Geraads et al., 2021). После проникновения в Азию потомки этого вида, вероятно, и дали начало линии, ведущей к появлению двугорбых верблюдов C. ferus/ bactrianus (Rowan et al., 2019;Geraads et al., 2021). В конце раннего и начале среднего плейстоцена на территории Северной Африки обитал C. thomasi Pomel, 1893, который, скорее всего, тоже не является прямым предком одногорбого верблюда C. dromedarius L., 1758. ...

... Without a thorough understanding of the phytolith production patterns of these taxa, it is not possible to say to what degree they are present in the study area. Applying the aridity index in spite of the above problems gives values of 61.5% or higher for the semi-desert samples as well as for some steppes, easily breaking the threshold of 20% set by Bremond et al. (2005b) for indicating aridity, or the 27.8% threshold by Novello et al. (2017). In addition, LDA results reveal a strong statistical relationship between semi-desert and the abundances of Saddle, mainly expressed on axis 3. ...

... We obtained data from the literature 40,44,50,122,[128][129][130][131][132][133][134][135][136] to represent two more traits relevant to functional diversity and ecometrics: hypsodonty and longitudinal loph count. Together these traits illustrate a species' dentition and dietary adaptations. ...

... Discrete characters were deemed the most important in this particular research; accordingly, resulting figures were oriented and scaled to the same size in linear dimensions to carry out sizeindependent comparisons of interspecific characters. Characters considered follow the standard terminology of Palacios and López Martínez (1980), were described in Appendix I of Ruedas (1998) and illustrated here ( Figure 1) with some modifications from Ruedas et al. (2017) in that all cusps are identified by incorporating features from López Martínez (1974,1977,1980,1989), López-Martínez et al. (2007), and Angelone and Sesé (2009). Additional characters useful in distinguishing among lagomorph species were extracted from Palacios (1996) and Palacios et al. (2008). ...