Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Physiology (Bethesda). 2020 May 1;35(3):160-176. doi: 10.1152/physiol.00058.2018.
Parental care has evolved convergently an extraordinary number of times among tetrapods that reproduce terrestrially, suggesting strong positive selection for this behavior in the terrestrial environment. This review speculates that destabilizing selection on parental care, and especially embryo incubation, drove the convergent evolution of many tetrapod traits, including endothermy.
亲代抚育在陆生的四足动物中多次趋同进化,这表明亲代抚育行为在陆地环境中受到强烈的正向选择。本综述推测,亲代抚育(尤其是胚胎孵化)的不稳定性选择驱动了许多四足动物特征的趋同进化,包括温血性。