Daniel W. McShea

MECHANISMS OF LARGE-SCALE EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS

Daniel W. McShea · Evolution · 1994 · 370 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +16

Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity

Jonathan L. Payne, Alison G. Boyer, James H. Brown et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · 312 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +12

Detecting changes in morphospace occupation patterns in the fossil record: characterization and analysis of measures of disparity

Charles N. Ciampaglio, Matthieu Kemp, Daniel W. McShea · Paleobiology · 2001 · 284 citations

Natural Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Paleontology +13

PERSPECTIVE METAZOAN COMPLEXITY AND EVOLUTION: IS THERE A TREND?

Daniel W. McShea · Evolution · 1996 · 273 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +7

Complexity and evolution: What everybody knows

Daniel W. McShea · Biology & Philosophy · 1991 · 270 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +10