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Comment on "Sexual selection promotes giraffoid head-neck evolution and ecological adaptation".

Sukuan HouQinqin ShiMichael J BentonNikos Solounias
Published in: Science (New York, N.Y.) (2023)
Wang et al . (Research Articles, 3 June 2022, eabl8316) reported an early Miocene giraffoid that exhibited fierce head-butting behavior and concluded that sexual selection promoted head-neck evolution in giraffoids. However, we argue that this ruminant is not a giraffoid and thus that the hypothesis that sexual selection promoted giraffoid head-neck evolution is not sufficiently supported.
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