To the biologist, dinosaurs offer windows on evolutionary trends and in particular on the critical issue of extinction. (newscientist.com)
Thus, our results support a nonlinear evolutionary trend in hominin body size (Di Vincenzo et al., 2015; Jungers et al., 2016) and contrast with the idea that the emergence of the genus Homo and / or the first dispersal out of Africa was related to an abrupt increase in body size (McHenry and Coffing, 2000; Antón et al., 2014; Maslin et al., 2015). (elifesciences.org)
The very latest mosasaurs showed an interesting evolutionary trend. (newscientist.com)