Adaptive landscapes unveil the complex evolutionary path from sprawling to upright forelimb function and posture in mammals

• Robert J. Brocklehurst ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rbrocklehurst@fas.harvard.edu (RJB); spierce@oeb.harvard.edu (SEP)

  Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3017-6838

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• Magdalen Mercado,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Kenneth D. Angielczyk,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Stephanie E. Pierce

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rbrocklehurst@fas.harvard.edu (RJB); spierce@oeb.harvard.edu (SEP)

  Affiliation Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0717-1841

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