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The Phylogeny of the Recent Carnivora

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Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution

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Konrad Gesner (1551), in one of the first widely distributed bestiaries, grouped animals that eat meat, a procedure that Linnaeus (1758) followed and identified as the order Ferae. The grouping of mammals that were carnivorous was further refined by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Cuvier (1795), Cuvier (1800, 1817), Gray (1821), and Temminck (1835–41). They inferred relationships among species and groups of species primarily on the basis of morphological similarities in dentition.

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Chris Wozencraft, W. (1989). The Phylogeny of the Recent Carnivora. In: Gittleman, J.L. (eds) Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4716-4_19

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