Comment on "Sexual selection promotes giraffoid head-neck evolution and ecological adaptation"

Sukuan Hou; Qinqin Shi; Michael J Benton; Nikos Solounias

doi:10.1126/science.add9559

Comment on "Sexual selection promotes giraffoid head-neck evolution and ecological adaptation"

Sukuan Hou^*, Qinqin Shi, Michael J Benton, Nikos Solounias

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Abstract

Wang et al. (Research Articles, 3 June 2022, eabl8316) reported an early Miocene giraffoid that exhibited fierce head-butting behavior and concluded that sexual selection promoted head-neck evolution in giraffoids. However, we argue that this ruminant is not a giraffoid and thus that the hypothesis that sexual selection promoted giraffoid head-neck evolution is not sufficiently supported.

Original language	English
Article number	eadd9559
Journal	Science
Volume	379
Issue number	6633
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add9559
Publication status	Published - 17 Feb 2023

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Keywords

Acclimatization
Adaptation, Physiological/genetics
Head
Neck
Sexual Selection
Animals
Giraffes/anatomy & histology
Biological Evolution

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