HYPOTHESIS

Hypothesis

Hypothesis

Question 1

Hypothesis: this predicts no relationship between size and any spatially patterned environmental variables in our data, because not sufficient time has elapsed for the pattern of ancestral colonization and diversification hypothesized. Note that the existence of Bergmann's direct would not invalidate this hypothesis if the process of ancestral colonization and diversification had structured this mammal community in the millennia former to the first time span of glaciations, and then the original community reconstituted itself every time the ice retreated. However, in this circumstance, we would have to inquire why this reconstitution occurs? Whatever the answer, it would clearly invalidate ...