Adaptive landscapes unveil the complex evolutionary path from sprawling to upright forelimb function and posture in mammals
Fig 6
Pareto optimality across synapsid evolution.
(A) Functional adaptive landscapes reconstructed for major ancestral nodes within synapsid evolution and (B) the Pareto landscapes created by combining these landscapes together. Pareto optimality for a group of taxa is defined based on their ancestral peak, and the peak of the next major node. (C) Pareto optimality plotted on the non-mammalian synapsid phylogeny. The data underlying this figure can be found in S1 Table and S1 Data.